Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 National Security Complex

under construction

The Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) is a new nuclear facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex designed to modernize the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile. It includes multiple subprojects such as the Process Support Facility, Site Readiness, Site Infrastructure and Services, the Substation, Mechanical Electrical Building, Main Process Building, and Salvage and Accountability Building. The facility will handle nuclear materials to produce fuel for U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carrier reactors and modernize nuclear weapons.