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A small Tennessee town is calling on local leaders to reject a uranium facility

NPR | By Pierce Gentry
Published March 20, 2026 at 4:42 AM EDT

A small Tennessee town hopes to stop the construction of a facility that has a federal contract to refine depleted uranium into a metallic form the government needs to build nuclear weapons.

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