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Piketon Nightmare: Residents & Workers Speak Out About Cancer Epidemic & NUKE Cover-up
Thousands of workers and people in the communities surrounding the Ohio Piketon nuclear processing facility have been contaminated for decades by dangerous poisonous releases. The companies and government have covered up the massive cancer epidemic around the plant and refuse to provide healthcare for most of those contaminated. They spoke out at conference held in Portsmouth, Ohio on August 24, 2025
The Piketon Nightmare Continues: Residents & Workers Speak Out About Cancer Epidemic & NUKE Cover-up
For many decades, there has been an ongoing cancer epidemic around the communities that surround the Piketon nuclear reprocessing plant in Southern Ohio. It is the largest nuclear processing plant in the country. Tens of thousands of people have been contaminated by the highly radioactive plant and continue to get sick and die excruciating deaths from cancer contamination. Despite this, many are still fighting for healthcare with many of the residents on medicaid which now will be eliminated in the new budget bill.
At a national meeting on August 24, 2025 some of the residents and workers spoke out abut how they have been impacted by this massive cancer epidemic, the cover-up and their continuing fight to protect their families and loved ones.
The conference was initiated by Press Portsmouth Pike Residents For Environmental Safety & Security, Justice For East Palestine Residents, Railroad Workers United RWU, WorkWeek, National Campaign For Single Payer & UFCLP.
Additional Media:
On 2nd Anniversary Of East Palestine NFS Derailment, The Fight For Residents & Workers &mThe Lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSlkzkcBsM
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
For many decades, there has been an ongoing cancer epidemic around the communities that surround the Piketon nuclear reprocessing plant in Southern Ohio. It is the largest nuclear processing plant in the country. Tens of thousands of people have been contaminated by the highly radioactive plant and continue to get sick and die excruciating deaths from cancer contamination. Despite this, many are still fighting for healthcare with many of the residents on medicaid which now will be eliminated in the new budget bill.
At a national meeting on August 24, 2025 some of the residents and workers spoke out abut how they have been impacted by this massive cancer epidemic, the cover-up and their continuing fight to protect their families and loved ones.
The conference was initiated by Press Portsmouth Pike Residents For Environmental Safety & Security, Justice For East Palestine Residents, Railroad Workers United RWU, WorkWeek, National Campaign For Single Payer & UFCLP.
Additional Media:
On 2nd Anniversary Of East Palestine NFS Derailment, The Fight For Residents & Workers &mThe Lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSlkzkcBsM
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
For more information:
https://youtu.be/s338K-GLjw0
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My husband Richard Blakeman better known as Ricky at pike sanitation. He and four other men were drivers that was part of the beginning of the plant cleanup and removal of contaminated materials from the plant. My husband was diagnosed with bone cancer from head to toe,lung cancer and bladder cancer. In a five year time frame all the drivers he drove with all parished from cancers that ate them up I feel the plant should compensate all the widows and their children for the horrible diress and heart aches we all suffered from watching our men suffer horrible before they died. Trying to move on and survive is an every day struggle for me. Please hear us and do something to help pike county survivors.Thank you for your time.
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