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   From: taka0038@gmail.com   
      
   Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah, Kentucky USA   
      
   Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear   
   catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted   
   with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical   
   brew. But this nuke calamity will be no fluke. It’s been foreseen,   
   planned, even programmed, the result of an atomic extortion game   
   played out between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the most   
   failed American experiment in privatization, the company that has run   
   the Paducah plant into the poisoned ground, USEC Inc.   
      
   As now scheduled, main power to the gargantuan gaseous diffusion   
   uranium plant at Paducah, Kentucky, will be cut at midnight on May 31,   
   just nine days from now—cut because USEC has terminated its power   
   contract with TVA as of that time [“USEC Ceases Buying Power,” Paducah   
   Sun, April 19, page 1] and because DOE can’t pick up the bill.   
      
   DOE is five months away from the start of 2014 spending authority,   
   needed to fund clean power-down at Paducah. Meanwhile, USEC’s total   
   market capitalization has declined to about $45 million, not enough to   
   meet minimum listing requirements for the New York Stock Exchange, pay   
   off the company’s staggering debts or retain its operating licenses   
   under financial capacity requirements of the Nuclear Regulatory   
   Commission.   
      
   The Paducah plant cannot legally stay open, and it can’t safely be   
   shut down—a lovely metaphor for the end of the Atomic Age and a   
   perfect nightmare for the people of Kentucky.   
      
   MORE: http://ecowatch.com/2013/countdown-to-nuclear-ruin-at-paducah/   
      
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l1BLMosusRI   
      
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