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Downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee as seen on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. The community, often labeled as “Tennessee’s Oldest Town,” has been selected by the federal government to host an expanded depleted uranium processing facility which will supply materials for the construction of nuclear warheads.
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The federal government is running out of a key ingredient for nuclear weapons: high-purity depleted uranium. Now they want to manufacture it in rural Tennessee.
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