Carolyn Harding with Michael Ketterer, PhD, an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. We’ll talk about the Portsmouth Ohio Nuclear Site, otherwise known as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, south of Piketon, Ohio, and HOT in Energy news NOW.Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, is an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. Michael holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado. Michael has worked in private industry, as a chemist for USEPA’s Office of Enforcement, and has taught at four different Universities. Dr. Ketterer specializes in understanding the sources, transport and environmental fates of long lived radioactive contaminants, such as uranium and plutonium, near former and active nuclear sites. Michael has performed mass spectrometric studies of uranium isotopes in off-site samples near the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) which show conclusively, using modern nuclear forensics, that the contamination originated from PORTS. The US Department of Energy has contradicted but has not disproved Dr. Ketterer’s results. Michael is currently providing technical assistance to communities throughout the US affected by legacy nuclear contamination. Ohio Nuclear Free Network website coming soon: www.onfn.orgThe Ohio Nuclear Free Network PRESENTS:A CITIZEN FORUM ONRADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATIONENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTHand THE FUTURE OF THE PORTSMOUTH NUCLEAR SITESaturday, June 10 at 1 pmAt the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661Speakers:Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University“Contamination is forever: Radioisotopes near PORTS”Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, epidemiologist andExecutive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project“Soaring Death Rate Near Ohio Uranium Plant”*Announcing the release of his NEW Seven-County Health Impact StudyTerry J. Lodge, Esq.Specialist in Environmental Law and Civil Rights“Is Piketon's Disastrous Past a Prelude to Even Worse?"Following the presentations, the public will be invited to speakabout health issues and environmental concerns. _______________________________________In person, on livestream at https://bit.ly/portsforum, and recorded on the Ohio Nuclear Free Network YouTube Channel.GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday Sundays at Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!