[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, RADIATION: Huntington Pilot Plant/Reduction Pilot Plant (WV)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Workers at Former Huntington Plants Exposed to Plutonium, Neptunium
Buried Slurry in Piketon Leaking

By Tony Rutherford
Huntington News (WV)
February 1, 2010

Huntington, WV (HNN) - HNN has confirmed through publicly available, 
unclassified documents that the workers at the formerly 'secret' 
Huntington Pilot Plant/Reduction Pilot Plant (HPP/RPP) on the INCO 
campus were exposed to [at least] "trace quantities" of Neptunium and 
Plutonium. The Huntington facility received nickel from reactors at 
Hansford and Savannah River, as well as the Paducah and Portsmouth 
Gaseous Diffusion Plants. The Portsmouth, Ohio, plant is located in 
Piketon, Ohio.

Vina Colley, a compensated Portsmouth (Piketon) Diffusion Plant former 
atomic worker and activist for compensation of workers, believes that 
plutonium and other residue on materials sent to Huntington for 
recycling and decontamination eventually made the Huntington plant 
contaminated beyond clean up.

The material that the Huntington plant received had been used at these 
various atomic energy plants as part of the chemical flow. Huntington's 
job was to reduce/remove the radioactivity and separate the compounds. 
For instance, once process separated nickel carbonyl and enriched uranium.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/100201-rutherford-localplutonium.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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