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Fortunes changed last fall, when Kenworth Truck Co., the second largest employer in town, cut production by a third, eliminating 500 high-wage jobs. The Piketon uranium-enrichment plant announced it would cease operations; and Mead Paper, which employs 2,200, told its unions to prepare for hundreds of layoffs...
...Carolina, Colorado and Ohio underscored the need for a costly cleanup. Last week the Department of Energy agreed to remove 6 million lbs. of dangerous wastes, some of it radioactive, that it had plowed into the ground or dumped into unlicensed landfills near an atomic-fuel-processing plant outside Piketon, Ohio, over the past 30 years. The much needed cleanup will not begin immediately: the final wording of the agreement is still being hammered out in a federal-court consent decree that must be approved by a judge, and the $50 million detoxification job is expected to take from...
...already soaring in anticipation of an eventual influx of 4,000-5,000 permanent employees of the new plant and 30,000 construction workers who will be brought in by major contractor Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. of Omaha (see BUSINESS) and a covey of architects and designers. In Piketon, the owner of a small hotel announced that she had been offered $30,000 for her business, added thoughtfully: "It isn't worth $15,000." Said County Sheriff Jesse Foster: "The very first thing we'll need will be a new jail...
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