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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Monday, March 12, 2012

The Atomic Energy Commission - the story of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon

Thanks Ramey!  I, too, worked at the Goodyear Atomic Plant, but only ten years before moving on to columjbus, Ohio and the hydraulics industry with Denison.




Several people have asked me about the plant where I worked, for almost 41 years, when they found out I worked in the nuclear industry. Construction on the plant in Pike County Ohio began in 1951-52 on a nearly 5000 acre site which was rural farm land and woods. Prime contractor was Peter Kewit & Sons and was the largest industrial construction project in the world at the time (25,000 construction workers at peak in a county where the total population was only 16,000 prior to the project). Yesterday evening a friend sent me the following 2 videos about the construction and operation of the plant- The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant for enriching Uranium. Early on Uranium was enriched to the assays required for weapons, U. S. Navy ships nuclear reactors and nuclear power plants. Much was done for foreign countries like France, Japan, England, etc. since at that time the U.S.A. had pretty much of a monopoly on Uranium enrichment. Link up to the 2 videos below if you are interested. They were produced by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and are very well done.  Ramey


Part 1





Part 2



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