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The Urenco site employs over 300 people and provides the local community with long-term employment in a technical environment, as well as opportunities for young people to pursue engineering and scientific careers.
In 1999 the journalist Duncan Campbell published claims that a 50m high tower on the premises of the uranium enrichment plant had been used to phone-tap calls transmitted between the BT towers at Gwaenysgor and Pale Heights, near Chester. Campbell claimed that the interception was conducted by GCHQ, initially from a temporary installation on the roof of the plant until commissioning of the tower in 1990. The tower was demolished in 2004. |