Sequoyah Fuels Corporation

Sequoyah Fuels Corporation owned and operated a uranium processing plant near Gore, Oklahoma.

[1] The plant is located near Gore, Oklahoma, close to the Illinois River and Interstate 40.

A leak and explosion in 1986 left one worker dead and extreme groundwater and soil contamination across the 600-acre site.

[2] In 2008 a company named International Isotopes said it would buy equipment and intellectual property from the Sequoyah Fuels Corp plant.

[4] The American Journal of Public Health describes the plant as having "never fully recovered" from the accident.