The Department of Energy uses words such as “remediation,” “decommission,” and “deactivation” to describe what’s going on in the tiny Appalachian town of Piketon, Ohio—the home of a facility that was used to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War. But Piketon residents say that the DOE is actively poisoning them. That’s because the DOE is … Continue reading A Middle American Town is Being Sacrificed to the Cold War