Parents fear for children after radioactive contamination found at Ohio middle school near a defunct nuclear power plant: “I have no idea how it’s going to affect him.'
Ashley Day has always worried about the health risks of living a few miles from a defunct nuclear power plant in Piketon, Ohio. So, when her son Kendon came home Monday and told her school had been canceled for the rest of the year, she had a sinking feeling there was a connection.
"It is the position of the Board that any level of contamination on or near our school is unacceptable," board President Brandon Wooldridge wrote in a letter "I watched my dad die of cancer. I can't imagine having to watch my son also go through that," Day said, adding that cancer is already"rampant" in Pike County, which is east of Cincinnati and has a population of about 28,000.
Pike County has a 20 percent poverty rate, making it one of the poorest counties in Ohio, according to theIn a statement to NBC News, the Department of Energy said that"routine air samples in the area of DOE's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon revealed trace amounts of two radiological isotopes that were more than one thousand to ten thousand times below the established threshold of public health concern.
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