LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant participated in radiation experiments during the 1950s, but some may not have been informed of the dangers, according to a federal report obtained by The Courier-Journal. At least 14 workers at the federal uranium processing plant who tested the effectiveness of respirators against radioactive dust, […]
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Nuclear Horror Tale
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FOR FIVE months, staff writer Joby Warrick has been laying out the ghastly story of the workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky, a government facility that, beginning in the 1950s, helped to produce the highly toxic materials used to create the nuclear arsenal that sustained this country through the Cold War. […]
Piketon waste a disposal headache
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The U.S. Department of Energy wants ideas about how more than 700,000 tons of depleted uranium being stored at atomic fuel plants in Ohio and Kentucky can be converted into more stable, environmentally friendly forms. The waste has been accumulating since the 1950s at the former federal atomic fuel plant at Piketon, Ohio, 65 miles […]
Ending the MSRE. A fabled reactor experiment’s cleanup project may be its crowning glory
It’s the final and somewhat ironic chapter of one of ORNL’s [Oak Ridge National Laboratory] largest and most storied projects. A successful but spurned and dormant experimental nuclear reactor is ending its days as a cleanup project. The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment’s fate is far from ignoble, however. The MSRE continues to teach, even in […]
US Congress Public Law 105–204: United States Enrichment Corporation
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ENERGY ACTS Public Law 105–204 105th Congress An Act To require the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan to ensure that all amounts accrued on the books of the United States Enrichment Corporation for the disposition of depleted uranium hexafluoride will be used to treat and recycle depleted uranium hexafluoride. Be it […]
Huge Tanks of Nuclear Waste Rusting Away
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PIKETON, Ohio – Federal officials are scratching their heads over 46,000 rusting steel cylinders containing depleted uranium that are stored here and at two other large nuclear installations. The cylinders, containing more than 1.1 billion pounds of uranium hexafluoride used to make atomic fuel, have been accumulating for nearly half a century at the Portsmouth […]
30 Exposed to Corrosive Gas Monitored for Uranium Peril
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GORE, Okla., Jan. 9 – Thirty workers who were exposed to a corrosive radioactive gas here will be closely monitored for several weeks to see if they suffer any permanent health effects, according to a nuclear radiation expert who is following their progress. The expert, Dr. Carl Bogardus, who is director of radiation therapy at […]
Radioactive Material Leaks into Air for Three Weeks
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PIKETON, Ohio – Radioactive material used to enrich uranium for nuclear reactors leaked for three weeks from a U.S. Department of Energy plant before being detected, but the company said Sunday that there were no abnormal levels in the air. The leak of 108.8 pounds of uranium hexafluoride was discovered Friday, said Tim Matchett of […]
Lethal Acid is Product of Chemical that Leaked
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The chemical that leaked at a uranium-processing plant in Oklahoma on Saturday, resulting in the death of one worker and injury to at least 32 others, breaks down on contact with moisture into a substance that is extremely dangerous even in small amounts, according to Federal officials. The chemical, uranium hexafluoride, is a key material […]
First Atom Bomb Suit – for Ruined Peaches – Filed by Salem County Growers for $400,000
A dozen orchard owners in Salem County (N.J.) blamed the atomic bomb yesterday for their ruined 1944 peach crop. And – they’re not fooling. For they filed suit in New Jersey Supreme Court for $400,000 to make good for their losses. Named in the suit – first of its kind – are three chemical manufacturers […]