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A fabrication plant (or fab) in computer manufacturing describes a large factory which manufacturesmicrochips out of silicon wafers. Fabrication plants can cost billions of dollars. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Fabrication plant. ... A drawing of a desktop computer. ... A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods. ... Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. ... A Microchip is, properly, an integrated circuit. ...
Eight years ago at a fabricationplant operated by General Electric in Wilmington, N.C., workers struggled for several days to keep uranium in a vat of water to avert a nuclear chain reaction.
The accident in Japan occurred at a fuel fabricationplant, similar to seven such plants operated by private companies in the United States, although the fabrication process in Japan is somewhat different, nuclear expert said.
First, uranium ore is converted to hexafloride gas, then it is shipped to another plant for enrichment, and then to one of seven fuel fabricationplants that turn the gaseous or liquid uranium into powder and then reactor fuel pellets.
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