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

["mervtano" <mervtano@iiirm.org>]

Saw this first on the ECA newsletter and sent Seth the following note:

Seth:
 
Just looked at the ECA newsletter.  Read the Fernald article with a lot of
interest thinking it might have some good things to say about the community.
Alas, nothing said about the role of the community in getting DOE to the
point where Dave Geiser can say: "We think we did a good job."


Mervyn L. Tano, President
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
444 South Emerson Street
Denver, Colorado 80209-2216
USA
Phone: +1 303-733-0481


-----Original Message-----
From: military-bounces@lists.cpeo.org
[mailto:military-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:19 PM
To: Military Environmental Forum
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Fernald Preserve (OH)

Once notorious uranium waste site in Fernald, Ohio, beckons tourists

BY ELLEN CREAGER
Detroit Free Press Travel Writer
June 13, 2010

FERNALD, Ohio -- At first, the Fernald Preserve inspires jokes.

"Let's come back and go hiking -- in 500 years," I say, checking out 
trails marked with radiation monitors.

My mom and stepdad make cracks about fish with three eyes and birds with 
six wings, ha ha. Still, we're a little nervous.

Fernald Preserve used to be the site of the factory where uranium was 
processed for nuclear bombs.

 From 1951 to 1989, it was known as the Fernald Feed Materials 
Production Center, a secretive facility in the middle of farm country in 
southwest Ohio. It produced nearly 70% of all uranium used in America's 
nuclear weapons. After it closed, cleaning up the badly contaminated 
site took the U.S. Department of Energy $4.4 billion and 17 years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.freep.com/article/20100613/FEATURES07/6130319/1322/Once-notorious
-uranium-waste-site-in-Fernald-Ohio-beckons-tourists




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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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