ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A piece of mostly open land near Oak Ridge could look very different a year from now as Orano moves forward with plans for its $5 billion Project IKE uranium enrichment facility.
Orano Group CEO Nicolas Maes visited the Project IKE property Wednesday, marking his first time seeing the site where the company plans to build the facility.
“You call me in a year’s time, we’ll be doing groundbreaking,” Maes said. “You come in five years’ time, it’s producing.”…