[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, RADIATION: Paducah Gasesous Diffusion Plant (KY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At the heart of the Atomic City: Paducah's Gasesous Diffusion Plant

Rebecca Feldhaus
WKMS Radio (KY)
May 11, 2010


PADUCAH, KY (WKMS) - When people in the Paducah area discuss 
"yellowcake," it might not involve any sort of baked good. The 
confectionery nickname represents uranium's solid form -- a dense yellow 
powder. Uranium has been part of the Four Rivers region for over 50 
years at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

The plant, located just within the boarders of McCracken County, near 
Kevil, began as a weapon-building site for the U-S Nuclear arms program. 
After World War II, the race for nuclear arms rocketed uranium 
enrichment plants, like the one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to heavy 
production. When U-S nuclear war program officials looked across the 
country for another plant location, Paducah Kentucky got the nod. Public 
Relations person for the United States Enrichment Corporation or USEC 
Georgann Lookofsky says there were suspicions that friends in high 
places had something to do with it.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wkms/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1648416/WKMS.Local.Features/At.the.heart.of.the.Atomic.City.Paducah's.Gasesous.Diffusion.Plant

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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
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