Fernald

As cleanup efforts at Fernald were wrapping up 21 years ago, WVXU's Tana Weingartner visited the site to see how one particular indicator species was doing. It would help scientists to know if the site was healing from its Cold War-era scars. She returned this spring to see what's changed.

Water has always been a big part of the Fernald story. In the 1980s, nearby residents got the news: the water they'd been drinking was contaminated with uranium and other waste. Part of cleaning up the superfund site meant making the groundwater and surface water safe, and repairing the damage to the aquifer and the Paddys Run watershed.

From Portsmouth to Cleveland, Ohio workers played an integral role in developing nuclear weapons during the Cold War. But their work came at a cost many only discovered years later.

UC's Center for Environmental Genetics is hosting a Q&A opportunity Tuesday for people who lived near Fernald when it was a uranium processing plant.

Uranium processing ended at the Fernald site 30 years ago and now the more than 1,000 acres are known as the Fernald Preserve. Its transition from uranium…

One thing is certain about Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States.That boy could talk up a storm.Still can.First of all, I've never seen a…

It's been 27 years since the Fernald Feed Materials Production Site closed down. Ten years ago this weekend, the work to replace the contaminated uranium…

From 1951 until 1989, the Feed Materials Production Center in Fernald, Ohio, about 20 miles northwest of Cincinnati, was a key player in the Cold War,…

This show originally aired October 24, 2014. The former Feed Materials Production Center in Fernald, Ohio, just 20 miles from Cincinnati, processed…

Add lupus to the long list of potential medical problems facing people who lived near Fernald.You've heard about the cancer claims, now a group of UC and…