[CPEO-MEF] RADIATON, REUSE: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nuclear Plant Promises Called Blank Sheet of Paper
Piketon Area May Have Permanent Environmental Scars

By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net (WV)
November 6, 2009


Portsmouth, OH (HNN) - A meeting of the Department of Energy's Site 
Specific Advisory Board for clean up and reuse of the Portsmouth Gaseous 
Diffusion Plant at Piketon brought forth a tug of war. Much like the 
Huntington downtown Superblock which lay fallow for nearly 30 years, 
uses for the contaminated site break down to two camps: Clean up the 
radioactive waste that still kills former workers versus possibly 
attracting a so-called new nuclear plant that would allegedly be safe.

The latter would bring jobs to an area starving for employment. But, 
many nearby residents do not trust the statements that a 'new' nuclear 
plant would not continue the odyssey of cover ups since the former 
facility opened during the Cold War in the 1950s.

However, after an elaborate news conference in the summer of 2009, the 
project dropped off the radar.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/091106-rutherford-nuclearplant.html

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