Uranium Plant

The Manhattan Project proved that fissile material — uranium-235 and plutonium-239 — could be produced industrially if a nation concentrated enough scientific talent, engineering capacity, and raw output behind the effort. The uranium plant encompasses the full chain: ore arrives as yellowcake concentrate, passes through gaseous diffusion or centrifuge enrichment to raise the U-235 fraction, and emerges as metal suitable for both reactor fuel rods and weapons-grade cores. The facilities at Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Chelyabinsk-40 were cities unto themselves. In the game the uranium plant is the prerequisite for the most powerful weapons and energy sources of the Atomic Age, producing fissile material consumed by nuclear programs and reactor-powered units. Build it only when your economy can absorb its enormous upkeep, and defend it as you would your command center — its capture denies you the only resource that makes atomic-era dominance possible.