[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, VOCs: Lockheed Settles for Paducah Plant, Kentucky Violations

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tentative $5 Million Settlement Reached Over Paducah Diffusion Plant Violations

by Erica Peterson
WPFL Public Radio (Louisville, KY)
February 25, 2016

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay $5 million to the federal government to settle a pair of 17-year-old lawsuits over contamination from hazardous waste at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The agreement is tentative until approved by the federal government.

The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy. From the 1960s until 2013, the facility enriched uranium for nuclear power plants. The plant hasn’t operated since 2013, and now the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to decontaminate and decommission the property.


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For the entire story, see
http://wfpl.org/tentative-5-million-settlement-reached-paducah-diffusion-plant-violations/

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Lenny Siegel
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