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published Monday, November 09, 2009  1267 Views :: 0 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  1122 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  393 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  268 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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