Michael E. Ketterer said the Department of Energy is spreading airborne radioactive contaminants such as enriched uranium, technetium-99, and neptunium-237 throughout the lower Scioto Valley.
Despite concerns from the community and calls from an Ohio congressman, open-air demolition began last week at the U.S. Department of Energy s former uranium enrichment plant in a southern Ohio village.
The demolition in Piketon comes after the federal agency promised the community, which has experienced high cancer rates, independent testing for radiological contaminants. The results are expected to come later this year.
The demolition is moving forward without that information. With it comes the potential for releasing more contaminants into the surrounding area, residents say. We do not believe that to be a safe or responsible plan, wrote Tony Montgomery, president of the Pike County Board of Commissioners, in a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine late last year.
McAvoy
AMSTERDAM Liberty ARC recently announced the appointment of Paul McAvoy as its new Director of Public Relations and Development. In this position, McAvoy will be responsible for managing the development, implementation and coordination of internal and external public relations strategies and day-to-day media relations.
McAvoy comes to Liberty ARC with a decade of experience in communications and development for non-profit human services organizations. He joins the agency from Maria College, where he served as the Associate Vice President of Advancement and was responsible for overseeing all operations of fundraising, communications, branding and marketing on behalf of the college.
Prior to that, McAvoy was the Director of Marketing and Communications at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, he served as the Senior Communications Specialist at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and he was the Director of Communications for New Hampshire Catholic Charities.
January 13, 2021
K. Bingham Cady, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died Dec. 10 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 84.
In a career that straddled academia and industry, Cady helped improve the safety of nuclear fission reactors by developing computer modeling software that could simulate – and assess the risk of – how reactors respond to operational fluctuations and accidents. Provided
K. Bingham Cady, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died Dec. 10 at the age of 84.
“He was part of a generation of reactor theorists that was trained at a remarkably deep level, in large part because they did their Ph.D.’s directly under people who came out of the Manhattan Project, and so were the founders of the field, or they had worked with the students or postdocs of those people,” said former student Mark Deinert ’96
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Groton Police have charged a Groton woman who fatally struck a man with her car while he was walking from his job at the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton one night in April, authorities said.
Carrie Malarkey, 38, of 46 Nichols Ave. was charged Tuesday with second-degree manslaughter, reckless driving and insufficient insurance, according to the City of Groton Police Department.
Just after 10 p.m. April 21, 2020, Malarkey was driving her 2012 Ford Focus on Eastern Point Road when she struck 60-year-old Ralph Lopardo of Waterford as he was crossing the street in the crosswalk after finishing his shift at EB, according to police.