Frantic parents fear for kids after radioactive contamination found at Ohio middle school [View all]
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.
A few hours later, her fears were confirmed: The Scioto Valley Local School District declared in a letter that Zahn's Corner Middle School would be shut down for the remainder of the school year because of possible radioactive contamination from the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which the federal Department of Energy is in the process of decommissioning.
"I felt anxiety, anger, and paranoia all at once," she said. "It's so scary that my child has been exposed to this because I have no idea how it's going to affect him."
The district said enriched uranium and neptunium-237, highly carcinogenic radioactive chemicals, were detected not only inside the building but also at a Department of Energy air monitor adjacent to the school.
"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 shared on Facebook. He also admonished the Department of Energy, urging it to "take appropriate actions to ensure radiological contaminants are not being released from the site."
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