NH #687: Radioactive Ohio School Auctioned Off to Christian Group + Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands – Edwards, Petrone
Canada Pushing for Nuclear Waste Repository on Indigenous Lands:
Tons of radioactive waste from nuclear reactor operation keeps piling up, with no resolution in sight. What to do with the waste? Canada has been making plans… but they’re bad ones. Here to explain how we got ourselves into this problem, what’s wrong with Canada’s current plans, and suggest some temporary steps that can be taken are two experts:
- Dr. Gordon Edwards is head of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility,
- Elysia Petrone, who is of mixed descent (Italian, German and Anishinaabe), is a board member for Mining Watch Canada and a member of Niniibawtamin Anishinaabe Aki (We stand for our land), an indigenous-led group dedicated to stopping the disposal of nuclear waste in Anishinaabe territory.
- Niniibawtamin Anishinaabe Aki – our concerns with nuclear waste.pdf
Radioactive Ohio School Auctioned Off to Christian Group
Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered in 2019 as too contaminated with radioactive material from the demolition of the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, sold to a Christian school and rehab center. Note the sign on the fence warning of radioactive contamination.
Radioactive particles from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, migrated into the nearby Zahn’s Corner Middle School and contaminated it with radioactive materials including plutonium and americium. The problem forced the school to be shut down in 2019. But after five years, the local school board decided to unload this liability and offer it up for auction. The one known potential buyer – a Christian school – was contacted by activists, attorney Terry Lodge and Prof. Michael Ketterer, who had discovered the contamination. They explained all the biological and legal reasons why the school should not be used. Within 24 hours, this group decided against bidding.
However, there was another Christian group in play, with what promises to be a very dirty backstory. I spoke with Vina Colley of Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security (PRESS) on August 17, 2024, the day of the auction, about what had just taken place.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
No matter what happens in Chicago, Democrats will continue supporting nuclear power.
Democratic National Convention – an explosion of confetti, non-nuclear.
