EnCore Energy reopens Uranium Plant with plans for county growth
- brittanyreed28
- Feb 7, 2024
- 1 min read
People who live in Duval County celebrated the re-opening of the uranium plant located between San Diego and Freer. EnCore Energy leaders said they re-opened the uranium plant to help provide the Coastal Bend with another natural resources as well as to create jobs. This renewed plant is vital to the economic growth of the neighborhoods around the plant.
The restart of the Rosita Central Processing Plant and Wellfield started in November of 2023 and marks the first uranium production in Texas in over a decade.
“Texas is one of the major uranium provinces in the U.S. and the third biggest state in terms of uranium resources," EnCore Energy Executive Director William M. Sheriff said. "(It has a) very long history of production primarily through the in-situ recovery which is not really mining it’s when you inject oxygen into the water, dissolve the uranium – pump it to the surface and recover it. Basically, a wastewater treatment plant."
