2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Peter Strauss <petestrauss1@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:35:25 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Re: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Fernald Preserve (OH)
 
At first I thought that this article was from the Daily Onion. The "Cold War Garden". How lovely! I'll book my next vacation. "Weapons to Wetlands". Enjoy the great great blue heron. I could go on.

Peter
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

Once notorious uranium waste site in Fernald, Ohio, beckons tourists

BY ELLEN CREAGER
Detroit Free Press Travel Writer
June 13, 2010

FERNALD, Ohio -- At first, the Fernald Preserve inspires jokes.

"Let's come back and go hiking -- in 500 years," I say, checking out trails marked with radiation monitors.

My mom and stepdad make cracks about fish with three eyes and birds with six wings, ha ha. Still, we're a little nervous.

Fernald Preserve used to be the site of the factory where uranium was processed for nuclear bombs.

From 1951 to 1989, it was known as the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center, a secretive facility in the middle of farm country in southwest Ohio. It produced nearly 70% of all uranium used in America's nuclear weapons. After it closed, cleaning up the badly contaminated site took the U.S. Department of Energy $4.4 billion and 17 years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.freep.com/article/20100613/FEATURES07/6130319/1322/Once-notorious-uranium-waste-site-in-Fernald-Ohio-beckons-tourists




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Lenny Siegel
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