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published Thursday, May 10, 2012  1105 Views :: 0 Comments

May 10, 2012

By Michael Coleman
From the Albuquerque Journal
  
WASHINGTON – Rep. Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Republican, and Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, don’t agree on much, but they teamed up this week to try to block federal subsidies to a uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky. 

The congressmen wrote a letter to House leaders negotiating details of a transportation bill and asked them to reject a Senate proposal to include in the legislation $150 million in federal subsidies to the United States Enrichment Corp. Pearce, who represents southern New Mexico, told the Journal that the subsidies would give USEC, based in Paducah, Ky., an unfair advantage over a similar firm in New Mexico. 

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican who ran as a champion of the fiscally conservative tea party, is among the biggest backers of the federal subsidy for USEC, arguing that about 1,400 jobs are at stake. Pearce called the Kentucky firm a “great big black hole where taxpayer dollars have been disappearing.” 

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published Monday, July 11, 2011  2201 Views :: 0 Comments

July 11, 2011

BY Tony Rutherford
From the Huntington News

HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Depending upon your degree of ‘trust’ in government agencies, the revelations about dangers at the former Huntington uranium processing plant and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant either border on disrespect or symbolize how the truth slowly ebbs out exposing even the best planned cover up.

Actually, Piketon, Ohio, atomic plant workers such as Owen Thompson and Vina Colley joined the ranks of whistleblowers long ago which eventually led to the unraveling of decades of denial.

Thompson had a special security clearance. He worked in the  “E Area” of the huge diffusion facility. Between 1978-1979, he just followed order by driving a hay wagon to some already dug trenches. When the contents were dumped, he saw a green goo. Thompson also observed that the wagons , trucks and other tools were entombed.


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published Monday, November 09, 2009  4716 Views :: 3 Comments

Seventy Nine Truckloads from Huntington’s Nickel Plant Buried
Once Radioactivity Released, You Can’t Put This 'Genie' Back in Bottle; Former Worker Alleges Plutonium Contamination

By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter

Editor’s Note: Vina Colley, a former worker at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, has been one of the most outspoken workers suffering cancer and other illnesses from their years working at the facility near Portsmouth, Ohio. Although the interview is in a Q and A format, it should be noted that Ms. Colley often had to stop speaking to get her breath. Occasionally, her thoughts were completed by a member of the clean up panel.

HNN: You worked as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant?

VINA COLLEY: As a Second Class Electrician I worked in every building on the plant site and many of the buildings off site.

HNN: Right now, like other employees , you suffer from multiple aliments attributed to your years at the plant.

VINA COLLEY: I have 57% lung impairment due to the chronic bronchitis. A low immune system where I had to take gamma glammas? Before. Memory lapses. Home oxygen. Three tumors, a total hysterectomy and skin cancer.

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published Thursday, June 25, 2009  2813 Views :: 0 Comments

By DEBORAH DANIELS

PDT Staff Writer
June 21, 2009

Pike County Commissioner Teddie West said he’s supportive of the newly proposed nuclear power plant that may be constructed on the Department of Energy site at Piketon.

Duke Power Corporation, French-owned nuclear reactor vendor AREVA and USEC Inc. announced Thursday, along with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and other officials, that a portion of the DOE site will be transitioned into a 21st-century clean energy production center. Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative is the local agency planning to build the nuclear power plant.

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published Monday, February 23, 2009  798 Views :: 0 Comments

Six decades of U.S. nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities have left dozens of Department of Energy (DOE) sites polluted with massive amounts of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Most DOE sites are now on the Superfund list of the nation’s most environmentally dangerous facilities. Their contamination threatens millions of people living near the sites or along major waste transportation routes. Some of the nation’s most important water resources are endangered.

Download 2009 Fact Sheet:  Cleanup5.1 final.pdf


published Monday, October 20, 2008  369 Views :: 0 Comments

The following is a geographic list of Grassroots Organizations who monitor Nuclear sites in the United States.

Download PDF:  GRASSROOT GROUPS MONITORING NUCLEAR SITES.pdf



 



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