Toxic Legacy of the Cold War


	Toxic Legacy of the Cold War

chestnut501

10-20-2009 5:19 AM

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news, politics, science, nuclear, waste, ohio, environment, radioactive

chestnut501 says:

Ohio's Fernald Preserve has flowers, birds and tons of radioactive waste. Sites that once supplied the nation's nuclear arsenal now pose a staggering political, environmental and economic challenge.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21817f6c-422e-4fc1-9609-04a286dc7eb0/EBD25E09-12E6-4306-8567-1DD5D8E0E26E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story">Site manager Jane Powell walks where 3 million cubic yards of radioactive waste 
is stored. Fernald is one of many facilities that once supplied the nation's 
nuclear arsenal. Today, these sites pose a huge political, economic and 
environmental challenge.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.latimes.com/img/8772ED29-5487-4420-B7EA-A7551784C41B" alt="Fernald Preserve" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story">A $4.4-billion cleanup transformed Fernald from a dangerously contaminated 
factory complex into an environmental showcase. But it is "clean" only by the 
terms of a legal agreement. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story">Fernald is part of the toxic legacy of the Cold War, one component in a vast 
complex of research labs, raw material mills, weapons production plants and 
other facilities</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story">Nearly two dozen other sites still await cleanup. The Obama administration is 
using money from the economic stimulus package to add $6 billion to the effort 
over the next three years. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-radiation-fernald20-2009oct20,0,2938856,full.story">"I worry about people forgetting about this site," said Crawford, who sometimes 
goes for a stroll around the preserve. "It is our job now to make future 
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