Byline: Cass Peterson Washington Post
Five to eight times more radioactive dust was released from a nuclear weapons plant in Ohio than the Energy Department estimated, according to a private analysis based on previously unreleased documents and soil samples near the plant. The analysis estimates that as much as 3.1 million pounds of uranium dust and other radioactive materials were released from the Feed Materials Production Plant near Fernald between 1951 and 1985. The Energy Department previously has put the figure at 395,000 to 555,000 pounds.
The Fernald plant produces uranium ingots and rods to be fabricated into fuel rods for reactors used in producing …
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