Ohio School Closed After Enriched Uranium Detected Inside

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) – The discovery of trace amounts of radioactive material in and around a southern Ohio school has prompted school district officials to close the building while more tests are done and health impacts are evaluated.
Scioto Valley Local School District’s Zahn’s Corner Middle School is several miles from the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which produced enriched uranium until 2001 and where a nuclear waste disposal site is bei