And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/018298.htm ===================================================== School expects to be home to uranium hexafluoride study center Ohio Wire April 16, 1999 PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) -- Paducah Community College expects to be the site of a new center for the study of commercial uses for depleted uranium hexafluoride materials from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says that by 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy will start building a facility to recycle the materials, now stored in 37,000 cylinders kept at the plant. A new partnership between the University of Kentucky and Ohio State University is studying ways to use the recycled materials to create jobs. The $5 million center would be used to further that effort, said Tom Osborne, a member of the Paducah Junior College board of trustees. The plant, owned by the agency and operated by the U.S. Enrichment Corp., uses a gaseous-diffusion process to enrich uranium hexafluoride gas into a material used to produce nuclear fuel for power plants around the world. The University of Kentucky has committed $2.2 million toward the project. The rest is being sought from the state and the Energy Department. ``Secretary Richardson is committed to it,'' Osborne said. ``I've talked to him about it, and he sees it as an important project. It's going to happen.'' The UK-Ohio State program is called the Midwest Institute for Depleted Uranium Solutions. The building at the Paducah school would serve as a research base for the program and to provide the public with information about the benefits and hazards of recycling uranium byproducts. ``The MIDUS program would be housed in large part in Paducah,'' PCC President Len O'Hara told trustees on Thursday. ``And specifically, on this campus.'' O'Hara said the community college would use its secondary school outreach program to stress the importance of science, mathematics and other studies as they relate to the conversion of uranium hexafluoride, which could lead to thousands of jobs. The Energy Department has estimated the economic value of the plant's recycled materials to be at least $3 billion. The agency has sought input from private industry on the proposed recycling facility and potential uses of recycled materials. Among the most promising is the extraction of the chemical element fluorine, which O'Hara said is worth more than $1 billion. ====================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Has ONElist changed your life? http://www.ONElist.com Visit our homepage and share with us your experiences at ONElist of the Week! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." -Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 45 after Pottsdam and the "baby was born"""The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."."-Attributed to Thomas Alva Edisonn"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"t"-George Orwell &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
