The Nuclear Plant in Paducha, Kentucky is set to shut down at the end of May (less than a week).
This piece was published in EcoWatch http://ecowatch.com/2013/countdown-to-nuclear-ruin-at-paducah/ It really makes one think about what a horific mess the nuclear industry is in and I wonder if regular Kentuckians even begin to understand the implications.
A major disgrace
A new definition for corruption?
Boehner and McConnell? I’m not surprised.
Quote: “the equipment in the plant has been run to decrepitude with no attention to maintenance”
Isn’t that the Entergy business model?
Paducah nuclear plant
Here is an article from 1999 about illegal dumping around the nuclear plant in Paducah, KY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/paducah29.htm
Here’s the opening paragraph:
PADUCAH, Ky. The discovery of radioactive black ooze seeping from the ground a quarter-mile from the U.S.-owned uranium plant here has buttressed workers’ claims of unlicensed dumping of hazardous waste outside the factory fence.
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I lived for three years in Murray, KY about 35 miles from there and went to Paducah a number of times a year. It was where the synagogue for western Kentucky was located. There also was a farmers market. I was pregnant the first year I was there and both me and my daughter have had thyroid problems. I had to have a partial thyroidectomy and a cancerous nodule was found. I strongly suspect exposure to radiation from the plant was the source of our problems.