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Stephen Starr in Piketon, Ohio

‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure

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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Piketon, Ohio on 22 June 2000. Photograph: David Kohl/AP

Three years after starting work as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Vina Colley started getting sick.

The huge facility in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio was opened in 1954 to enrich weapons-grade uranium for the military as America’s cold war with the Soviet Union ramped up, and later, for commercial purposes.

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