Piketon News

A spokesman for the Piketon Uranium Enrichment Plant in Pike County said that there had been some damage at the plant because of the tornado-like storm that swept through the county late Saturday afternoon.

The Ohio State University South Centers in Piketon has announced it will host a Women In Appalachia conference from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland recently joined executives from Duke Energy , Charlotte, N.C.; AREVA , Bethesda, Md.; USEC , Bethesda, Md.; UniStar Nuclear Energy , Baltimore; and the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative , Piketon, Ohio, to announce the formation of an alliance to pursue the development of America's first clean energy park project at ...

The U.S. Department of Energy will host a public workshop at the OSU Endeavor Center in Piketon July 18 to discuss activities related to the National Historic Preservation Act.

USEC recently provided a $3,200 corporate donation in support of the Piketon-Seal Township Fire Department.

PEEBLES: Rev. Donald Ray Tackett, 74, of Red Bridge Rd., Peebles, OH, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at the V.A. Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

With sadness I read your recent story about Duke Energy's plan for a nuclear plant in Piketon, Ohio, with support from our governor and others.

While it could be better, Lawrence County officials said Thursday that Lawrence County's unemployment rate could be worse.

WAVERLY: Robert Garner Lambert, 77 of Morgan Fork Rd. Waverly, died Thursday June 25, 2009 at the Adena Regional Medical, Chillicothe, OH.

Chillicothe/Ross County needs another industrial park according to local development officials.

Why didn't they go door to door and ask the community what kind of jobs they want for the area? A woman in the crowd hold up a sign that reads.

DOWNTOWN - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu called graduates of Cincinnati State Technical & Community College to action Thursday night to fight the 'looming crisis in energy and climate change.' 'We have two choices,' Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, told the crowd of more than 400 graduates, their families and friends at U.S. Bank ...

Even as an announcement of a plan for a nuclear-power plant was celebrated this week in Piketon, Ohio, a uranium-enrichment plant project on the same site that is to begin operating by 2011 teetered on financial collapse.

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No nuclear plant has been built in the U.S. since the 1979 partial meltdown at the 3 Mile Island Plant in Pennsylvania.....but plans were unveiled Thursday to research the possibility of building one in Southern Ohio.

By FRANK LEWIS PDT Staff Writer PIKETON - " Governor Ted Strickland looked like a man who just saw a dream combined with hard work come together, when he left the stage at the announcement Piketon will be the location of America's first clean energy park project.

Thursday's announcement, although something of a surprise to some local elected and economic development officials gathered for the ceremony, was universally applauded as a future benefit to southern Ohio as a whole.

Multiple sources are reporting that a new nuclear power plant is coming to Piketon.

PIKETON -- The first new nuclear power plant in Ohio in more than 20 years is expected to be announced Thursday.

An alliance of energy companies will be in Piketon, Ohio, Thursday morning to announce plans to construct a multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant on the site of a former uranium enrichment plant.