[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, LANDFILLS: "Report reveals deep fractures" at landfill for Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (OH)

[Lenny Siegel]

Report reveals deep fractures under radioactive Ohio land

by DUANE POHLMAN, 
WKRC TV-28 News (Columbus, OH)
February 3, 2025 

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - On a 100-acre section of land northeast of the closed Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), mammoth trucks and front-end loaders are busy digging and filling a $650 million landfill with radioactive and hazardous waste.

The contents already include debris from the demolition of buildings, cut-up and crushed equipment, and contaminated soil, part o f multi-billion-dollar cleanup of the closed, Cold War-era facility that enriched uranium for America’s nuclear power plants and its atom bombs.

When completed and capped in 2030, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) insists that the cutting-edge landfill will seal in the radioactive and toxic trash for up to a thousand years. But Billy Spencer, mayor of the nearby Village of Piketon, says that there were cracks in the DOE's argument from the time the landfill was proposed.

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For the entire story, see
https://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/report-reveals-deep-fractures-under-radioactive-ohio-landfill-portsmouth-gaseous-diffusion-plant-ports-mayor-stop-report-government-listen-water-supply-fear-contamination-death-hazardous-piketon-duane-pohlman


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Lenny Siegel
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