[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, RADIATION: Fernald Preserve (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Where bombs were once born, birds now flock

By LISA CORNWELL
Associated Press
August 16, 2008

CINCINNATI (AP) - A site once home to a Cold War-era uranium processing 
plant and the focus of a contentious struggle to clean up toxic waste 
has re-emerged as a haven for wildlife and a memorial to those who 
worked to make the area safe.

The Fernald Preserve and its visitors center will make their public 
debut Wednesday at the former site of the government center that 
processed uranium metal for nuclear weapons from 1952 to 1989. Shrouded 
in secrecy for years, the site gained national notoriety in the 1980s 
with media reports on site emissions and residents' concerns over 
radioactive contamination of air, soil and groundwater.

A corrugated metal warehouse was transformed into a visitors' center 
that traces the site's history from its years as an American Indian 
habitat. Some exhibits highlight the plant's workers, known as "Cold War 
warriors" for their contribution to the nation's defense.

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For the entire article, see
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-MSGHaHzRwkiEU29s-fIlrIwWTgD92JJBE81

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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