In Fernald Ohio, which is located 18 miles north of Cincinnati. Uranium metals and compounds for nuclear reactor fuel were produced. This was used for this during the cold war 1953 to 1989 when all production was stopped. In 1991 it was permanantly stopped and the Fernald Environmental Project began to make clean-up safe and cost effective. The site produced feed material to be sent to other sites for their use to make plutonium and tritium. They converted uranium ore and recycled materials into uranium metal through chemical processes. For a long time years nobody in the tiny rural town of Fernald, Ohio suspected that they lived next door to a uranium processing plant. The sign at the plant said "Feed Materials Production" and they all assumed it was producing some type of animal feed. It wasn't animal feed. In 1984 that a report was released revealing that more than 275 pounds of uranium dust had leaked out of the plant.