Portsmouth Nuclear Site w/ Dr. Michael Ketterer, PhD

Carolyn Harding with Michael Ketterer, PhD, an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. We’ll talk about the Portsmouth Ohio Nuclear Site, otherwise known as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, south of Piketon, Ohio, and HOT in Energy news NOW. Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, is an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. Michael holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado. Michael has worked in private industry, as a chemist for USEPA’s Office of Enforcement, and has taught at four different Universities. Dr. Ketterer specializes in understanding the sources, transport and environmental fates of long lived radioactive contaminants, such as uranium and plutonium, near former and active nuclear sites. Michael has performed mass spectrometric studies of uranium isotopes in off-site samples near the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) which show conclusively, using modern nuclear forensics, that the contamination originated from PORTS. The US Department of Energy has contradicted but has not disproved Dr. Ketterer’s results. Michael is currently providing technical assistance to communities throughout the US affected by legacy nuclear contamination. Ohio Nuclear Free Network website coming soon: www.onfn.org The Ohio Nuclear Free Network PRESENTS: A CITIZEN FORUM ON RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH and THE FUTURE OF THE PORTSMOUTH NUCLEAR SITE Saturday, June 10 at 1 pm At the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661 Speakers: Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University “Contamination is forever: Radioisotopes near PORTS” Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, epidemiologist and Executive Director, Radi