‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure

<p>As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects</p><p>Three years after starting work as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Vina Colley started getting sick.</p><p>The huge facility in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio was opened in 1954 to enrich weapons-grade uranium for the military as America’s cold war with the Soviet Union ramped up, and later, for commercial purposes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/23/ohio-piketon-nuclear-enrichment-facility-health">Continue reading...</a>