An American Nuclear Tragedy: A Little Known Nuclear Facility in Paducah, Kentucky
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The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility that produces enriched uranium for nuclear power plants. The plant is operated by United States Enrichment Corporation, a subsidiary of USEC Incorporated. It is the only operating uranium enrichment facility in the United States. The Paducah plant PRODUCES low-enriched nuclear fuel for NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
A 2000 story about abuses at a nuclear processing plant in Paducah, Kentucky that operated behind a wall of government secrecy for nearly 50 years. Former worker Joe Harding, who died at age 58 after suffering illnesses that included bone-like protrusions growing through his skin, spent his last years fighting for a full accounting of the damage done to workers' lives and local lands.
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I grew up there. Both my parents died of cancer in 1986. The hospice nurses told me this: "There are unusually high incidences of cancer in Paducah, but we don't know why."
Now we do. Thanks you so much for making this film. The world needs to know.
So sorry to hear that Mark. Nuclear has taken too many of our loved ones. The safe radioactive level is ZERO.
Even today people are dying from cancer and still don't know what truly killed them. Nuclear Kills. Bless you Mark.
It is true and I an so glad that you commented!
Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky. My grandma Cee Cee passed in the 90's from a tumor on her spine. She was fine. Took a nap, woke up and couldn't move. She never knew the tumor was there. She had raised her family right by that place in Kevil. I know in my heart that plant killed her.
It's only going to get worse. People think that if they can't see poison it's not there. Look at all the people around West Kentucky. We all are dieing of cancer. Government covered it up like it's not a problem. Hospital are building new cancer centers. It's really bad. Stay safe and move far away from Western Kentucky as soon as possible...
Thank you so much for sharing and reminding the public of the sacrifice so many men and women have gone through at the Paducah site. So many men sacrificed so much for their families. Let us not forget! And continue cleaning up the site.
Fernald, in the Hamilton/Ross Ohio region, where I grew up, has and equally catastrophic history.....they manufactured many of the nuclear weapons we have in our arsenal there.
Have you seen the episode of Unsolved Mysteries about the guy that got stuffed in to a furnace at NLO (National Lead Ohio)?
processing of uranium ore took place at Fernald, nuclear weapons parts were made in the Rocky Flats Plant in the suburbs if Denver, Colorado
Not to diminish the story, but to add, there are other incidences of cancer in West Kentucky that seemingly are not related to the uranium enrichment plant, for instance, in towns near the Kentucky-Tennessee border that are far upstream. Also in more recent times let's not forget the hazardous waste incinerator in Calvert City, or its many chemical plants.
Uranium killed Joe but Joe fought for us to his last breath.
Thank you for posting the video!
You're welcome! :) Please share
Worked there from 1993 - 1998 when USEC started the big layoff of the plant. Now USCG, I have Plutonium exposure in my medical records.
So thankful he thought to record this and it was kept safe.
There is the same story at the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) in Piketon, Ohio. The Dept. of Energy also enriched uranium there. The real tragedy is that they brought in reprocessed high-level radioactive waste and ran it through all the process buildings to extract the uranium in it. That waste contaminated the entire sites of both Paducah and PORTS with transuranics (plutonium, americium, neptunium), various isotopes of uranium, and technetium, among hundreds of other isotopes and toxins. And plenty went, and continues to go, offsite into the air, land, and water.
You are forgetting Honeywell in Metropolis, IL who is known for "leaks" with clouds of gas being filmed and their alarms being heard in town. Even I have heard the alarms.
I've heard them as well. I'm from Carbondale, Illinois
James Clark I'm in Murphysboro, I applied for a maintenance job there...lol
Check it out now in 2018....
www.wpsdlocal6.com/2018/05/23/lawsuit-claims-entire-community-contaminated-uranium-plant/
I was born and raised in Paducah 63 now I was born in 1953 father was one of the people who helped build it I hope the guy that was yelling at Joe calling him a liar feels like the A hole he is
Amen Beverly. That a$$hole yelling at Joe is probably dead. I live an hour north of Paducah. I had no idea how deadly depleted uranium is until a few years ago. It is a Crime Against Humanity. Bless you and yours Beverly.
Beverly Barnes damn tight buddy👍🏻🇬🇧
Right*
I lived in Paducah for a few years, didn't know anything about this!
God Bless You, Joe! You're an Angel. I'm sorry for you and the other guys who have suffered....and your families. I hope all of us being slammed on a global scale now will live to see a total shut down of the nuclear 'criminal' industry!! Who in the hell do these asses think they are??? Peace Out..
The nuke industry is disgusting. This needs to stop
nuclear deterrent
This is so sad. I think more Americans have died & still dying From Nuclear testing & waste then died in Japan. They all had cancer & did not know.
I lived in Paducah and I didn't know about this
True, but the agent - a simple mentioning that if they mention it anywhere they will spend thirty years in a federal penitentiary might cow quite a few people would back down.
Yep. I'm in touch with the EPA office in Louisville. SOME of the people there are surprisingly bright! :)
THank you for watching! Best
Learned how to drive on the back gravel roads out by this nasty plant.
Either way, from the doctors point of view the man was obviously exposed to something nasty and it wasn't in his house (or neighborhood)...
As for an "agent" showing up and telling him to STFU - an anonymous tip to a few TV stations and newspapers and they would create a nice meat grinder for the company management, it would also force the state agencies to take action...
Where there's will, there's always a way!
I actually suspect he DID notify the authorities - and a guy waving a goverment placard in his face showed up and told him to shut up. That is the more likely explanation than the lack of complete knowledge. Btw - chemical contamination (such as PCB) at work would also not affect his wife (significantly)....
I've lived in paducah my whole life.We've seen friends and family die from cancer.We also have a child with special needs.In louisville at the hospital we stay at the ronaldmcdonald house.It surprizes us how may of the familes that stay there(for there children) are from this area.what a coincidence! Just wondering have they done any study on what the land is doing to are children now? I doubt it!My child was one of the lucky ones that his special needs are not as severe are others i have seen!
Common MDs, and even others, might not recognize the condition. Oncologists might, because they know radiation poisoning effects from irradiation of patients when doing radiotherapy.
I used to live in Kevil- not too far away from USEC (or whatever company owns the plant these days).
Has anyone from the area been diagnosed or had Multiple Sclerosis? I had three close relatives from Paducah who got MS.
Sad to know about the fate of those who worked in that plant..spent 6 months in Metropolis, Il 2013 and IMO Paducah is (less than 15 miles from Metropolis)one of the growth areas right now. In fact, it was included as one of the fastest growing cities 2013
Malls are teeming with customers and restaurants are packed most of the time. People are nice as expected from a Southerner. A nice place to live where price of a home have not gone up dramatically apparently due to the presence of a nuclear facility in the area.
Metropolis IL has been contaminated by Honeywell...
www.wpsdlocal6.com/2018/05/23/lawsuit-claims-entire-community-contaminated-uranium-plant/
Lots of people are building new homes in west Paducah like they don't even have a clue. The company and government need to be held responsible for causing heath issues and deaths of so many people. Its just begun! Wait and see...
Just so everyone knows there has been a little remorse on the Gov'ts part. There were some pretty big payouts a few years ago. It's still criminal IMO regardless.
HUGE payouts
Lot of money in those tanks. Uranium Hexaflouride.
That is a huge amount of money sitting in those tanks.
Totally irresponsible to expose these folks to UF6, worse to tell them "It won't hurt you". That stuff gets in your lungs it would be bad news.
A little consideration for workers is called for here. Give 'em uniforms, launder them, let them shower, give 'em respirators. Train them.
Good profit. Bad profit. There is a tomorrow so act like it.
I call "Bullshit" on reprocessing. Spent fuel is intensely radioactive, as in "Stand near it and you'll die within hours" radioactive. The processes are totally different between what they used at Paducah to make nuclear fuel and what is required to reprocess "spent' fuel. Nuclear fuel is hardly spent, it's just not active enough and contains too many fission products to work properly.
+GeneHeim1 Right across the river in Metropolis, IL is another plant by Honeywell. They too make UF6. And we have had several leaks. I have heard the alarms going off from the plant myself as I live in Metropolis, IL.
pff typical, this is what you get when your government outsources everything to private contractors who's only goal is to make as much money at any cost.
+zennus1 Big gov fucks it up pretty well on their own also
+NukePro Stock Yes their corrupt as well.
they're
zennus1 The Soviet citizens got a lot worse at Mayak and there was no private companies
The Paducah Nuclear Facility helps explain the high incidence of cancer in western/northwestern Kentucky area. Living in an agricultural area has its own risks but living near a nuclear facility puts those risks as minimal compared to the health risks of living or working near nuclear radiation. How many more I wonder?
+Joshua Castleberry The uranium enriched in Paducah couldn't have been used in the bomb dropped on Japan in WW2 because Paducah's enrichment plant wasn't built until the early 1950's. As to a comment by another person that uranium from the United States was used in the failed Japanese reactor, that I don't doubt, and I suppose some of it could have been supplied from Paducah, I just am not aware.
Some of the fissionable material used in the bomb dropped on Japan in WW2 was reportedly from a captured German u-boat headed to Japan near the last days of the war, for their use in developing a bomb, but fortunately captured by the United States en-route. I had never heard or read of this before, but there is a decent documentary on UA-cam which purports this claim.
The Highly Enriched Uranium was produced in Oak Ridge, TN, plutonium in Hanford, WA and the bombs were assembled in Los Alamos, NM
The worlds fucked. Thats what ive decided.
Just more joy from the government that was suppose to protect us, WHAT A JOKE.
if they hadn't built these facilities to produce a nuclear deterrent we'd have been ash. cancer was not their priority back then.
"horrible mutations" are not quantifiable to radiation only - by the way his contract might have obliged him to NOT reveal his workplace, as a matter of "national security".
Without the quantification of possible exposure given by the patient (which you correctly point out would clearly give the situation away to the MD) the situation is not so clear cut - there are other skin diseases which are debilitating, and are induced by chemical not radiological means.
Thank you for telling the truth
Great upload. Il be back!
Thankfully, people are beginning to realize it. We've got to start shutting those bloody reactors down!
They are shut down. Gaseous Diffusion is an obsolete technology. All of the GF plants are currently being dismantled and decontaminated (D&D) with close and strict oversight by the DoE. This D&D includes environmental clean up, a process estimated to be completed in 2068.
My gosh😢
Interesting... care to tell me about the bomb-making facility anywhere near my state (Czech Republic) consuming more then 3,4 GW of electric energy our nuclear power plants are generating?
Or even better, care to tell me who (besides Iran and North Korea) is actually making nuclear weapons atm.?
1970 - Minuteman III began deployment, and full operational capability was declared in April 1975. It had an expected lifespan of 10 years.
If you think the US or even Russia is not replenishing their stock, you're wrong.
thanks
ALL ROADS LEAD BACK TO THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
Well....I think it's interesting that they finally learned to pronounce "Uranium Hexaflouride"What about Chlorine Triflouride, Flourine, Hydrogen Flouride??I worked at K-25 From Oct. 1, 1952 till Sept. 30, 1993. I worked as a process operator and we handled high assay uranium....even the top product(97% pure uranium) and I don't not know a one of our operators who was affected. I talked to two of my co workers within the last six months, one 93 and one 97 and they are living the good life.
Since I'm 82 and in perfect health it tells me a lot. A crew of 100 utility personnel cleaned up the biggest spill in the history of the plants at Oak Ridge. A ten ton cylinder with relatively low assay material exploded in unit one(402-1) and a fine powder of the uranium spread through the nine units in K-27. In the top unit, (402-9) it was laying 1/4" deep on all the construction steel beams in the plant. We had so many vacuum cleaners running that we had to station an operator by the electrical switchbox to keep resetting when it would trip. Most of us were youngsters and we didn't even wear protective clothing or masks. I wouldn't be afraid to eat some of it. That spilled material was mostly UO2F2.
well I was looking at homes for sale there, pass on that
just avoid west paducah / kevil if you're worried. drinking water is tested very thoroughly now and is safe. they are in cleanup phase.
@@cainiakPaducah water is pulled from the Ohio River. The most toxic river in North America. Same water flows past Calvert city.
@@MarshallCountycorruption Yep. Here is a link to their 2024 Water quality report. www.pwwky.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024_Water_Quality_Report.pdf
Not sure how the american system works, but in this shitty little state, all companies over a certain number of employees must have their own doctor (either employed or contracted), that is responsible for the employees checkups on so on...
As for an "outside" doctor, if one sees such extreme heath effects (which his wife was not suffering from), the only logical explanation is exposure at work...
I still stand by my opinion that the doctor horrendously failed by not notifying the authorities!
SAD
CRIMINAL.
I had to say I like the video even though I hate what is allowed to happen of last 70 years by this industry & our guberment, not only to the workers but their families & all the up & down winders. Also who knows how much is now in our wells & major water supplies, there is no way to filter this stuff out as it changes from element to the next becoming just as deadly each time is changes. Ecocide is real
PootStip Hell no, our gov is so damn corrupt why trust them? The Tree of Liberty on is cleaned by the blood of those tired of tyranns acting as lawmakers. T Jefferson said it Best! I guess no one knows history anymore!
PootStip Hell NO! I voted for myself, we have to replace these ass hole on all ballets from small & large cities! Those a sleep will weep!
Peace
PootStip Not very proud of how the South was Raped by the Northern slum bags. Wilson, FDR were the worse until the Bush, Clinton & Ocare & the crime families who own them, as Ike warned, watch the military complex & that includes the nuke industry!
Peace
PootStip Heck the whole USA, but I like the South!
PootStip I can't blame you as I hate the north cold as weather!
this is where I live,, =(
OSHA BE DAMNED!!!
Sorry :(
I live in SE Kentucky and this is what's going on in my house
watch?v=QGmPMEydM8E
Get a Geiger counter :)
Nuclear industry is not evil, the management of the plant was... I still find it disturbing that when a doctor saw the man's condition he didn't inform the proper authorities that he is suffering from radiation poisoning...
Jesus...
Wanna buy a watch?
what the shit!?!? wow.... not good
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You have it completely right untill the part where you went "it uses more elelctricity than it produces" ... that's where you inserted bullshit into an otherwise completely correct statement.
you honestly think after Chernobyl, Fukushima, Kyshtym disaster, and the Windscale fire... damn nuclear energy.
:(
Dear people I had no idea of the tragedy going on in Tennese, but I am not surprsed, sense I testified agaist nuclear , my mom, sis where killed to exloite my work , seprated from my kid. charged with a crime i never committed, my writing worth millions stoled while i a disabled 5x cancer survivor tortured. This man was not a liar, neightner am i . Thugs , trying to protect their jobs, or paid too , bully and harrass, my life is threathened daily, my privacey violated,, get paid! so will I !
None of these big energy corporations or transglobal companies or banks or Republican-big-wigs have any regard at all for human life. Very Sad.
+WilliamMay You must have had some story to be worth "millions", because your spelling sure isn't.
The teacher was absent the day they studied spelling.