[cas_announce] June 21 Insights Lecture: The Fernald Story
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 05:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Our thanks to Sue and her colleagues for hosting CAS astronomers for the
Transit of Venus.
Learn about one of the largest cleanups in the nation's
history!
June 21 Insights
Lecture:
The Fernald Story
Sue Walpole,
Community Relations Manager, Fernald Preserve
7:30 p.m. in Reakirt
Auditorium
In Greater Cincinnati, the name Fernald conjures of images of huge
overarching nuclear stations. The Fernald site has undergone many
changes, from Native American antiquity, a rural agricultural setting,
a Cold War mission, site cleanup, and now native wetlands, prairie and
woodlands. For centuries, the area northwest of Cincinnati was mainly
agricultural and largely undeveloped.
That all changed in May 1951, when Fernald began operations as a
uranium ore processing facility that served as the first link in
America's nuclear weapons production cycle. Throughout the nearly four
decades of the Cold War, Fernald delivered high-grade uranium metal
products for the nuclear weapons complex. Production operations ceased
in 1989 and the site's mission changed to environmental remediation.
The U.S. Department of Energy pledged to do three things at Fernald:
Close it, clean it up and give it back to the community.
Join us to hear more about this $4.4-billion cleanup, one of the
largest undertaken in the nation's history. This lecture is free and
open to the public.
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