Cleanup of Ohio uranium plant expected to take decades more
Source: AP
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) The U.S. Department of Energy says the cleanup of a Cold War-era uranium plant in southern Ohio is expected to take another three decades or more.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman had asked whether the administration was committed to the earlier goal of finishing the cleanup at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon by 2024. In a response that was shared Tuesday by Portman, the department says that isn't an achievable goal. It says its target range for finishing the decommissioning and decontamination work is now between 2044 and 2052.
The cleanup employs more than 1,800 people and provides some of the best-paying jobs in a pocket of high unemployment. Last year, hundreds of layoffs were threatened until Congress provided a last-minute infusion of funding.
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Botany
(70,516 posts)It produced both bomb grade and reactor grade uranium along w/tons
of toxins.
pscot
(21,024 posts)Sixty years of cost+ contracts and billions and billions of dollars in profit.
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141119792#post11
More Chernobyls, Fukushimas, Ohios and Hanfords in our future...as the "solution" to predatory capitalism's destruction of Planet Earth?
Insanity! And it tells just how insane predatory, unregulated capitalism is, that we, who are stuck with the un-cleanups of nuke pollution, that we, who have been stuck with all the costs of these horrors, from start to limitless toxicity, are now letting the profiteers use their profits from us, to LOBBY for more of the same, using the death of Planet Earth as their OPPORTUNITY.
It boggles the mind!
on point
(2,506 posts)Not to mention the centuries of protecting the 'waste'.
We are already leaving future generations with the disaster of climate change and the existing nuclear waste, not to mention those nuclear plants with accidents!
Let's not add to it with any new nuclear plants!!!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)He got two new nukes' approval in SC. He should be hounded on this subject throughout the campaign until he shrivels to nothingness