[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Paducah Nuclear Plant (KY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ONE OF A SERIES: Paducah Nuclear Plant Clean Up Still Faces Significant 
Hurdles
What Can Piketon (Portsmouth) Expect?


By Tony Rutherford
Huntington News (WV)
January 3, 2010

Huntington, WV (HNN) - Scanning previous internet "news" reports, two 
stand out in regard to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant: A Tornado 
and suspicions regarding buried Huntington Pilot Plant materials.

Scioto and Pike Counties in Ohio often experience more intense wind 
bursts when summer thunder storms form and occasionally turn to 
tornadoes. On July 11, 2009, NBC reported that "some damage" had been 
reported at the plant from a "tornado-like storm," based on word from 
public information officer Jack Williams the damage did not impact plant 
operations.

In 1993, residents complained about an alleged 2.5 hour "unreported 
release." They alleged 13 workers were checked for exposure but no 
sirens sounded. However, after investigation, those responsible for the 
plant indicated that the 'release' was not a threat to those outside the 
plant. The Portsmouth facility has sirens for public notification.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/100103-rutherford-localpowerplantcleanup.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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