 |
| Watch This Week's "The State of Ohio" Online |
| Order Online : "The State of Ohio" |
 |
|
This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
|
|
| |
|
|
| New facility brings jobs for southern Ohio and new uses for dangerous substance. |
|
By Fred Kight - June 3, 2008 |
|
|
The ribbon was cut today on a new facility at the old Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Piketon. It's called the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility, the DUF6 Conversion Facility for short. The US Department of Energy ceremony marks the end of construction for the $250 million project. Steve Polston of Uranium Disposition Services says the next step is to make sure the equipment and the personnel are ready for the operations phase.
Disposition Services built the plant and will operate it for DOE with a workforce of about 160 people. Starting late next year, the facility will begin converting more than 250,000 metric tons of depleted uranium into a stable chemical form of uranium, which will be disposed of or packaged for re-use. The depleted uranium is left over from the days when enriched uranium was being made at the Pike County plant. |
|
Steve Polston (:20) 
|
| |
|
|
|
|
