Article: Deer Near Paducah, Ky., Plant Still Show Radioactive Traces.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 29 -- Traces of radioactive elements -- some natural and some man-made -- continue to be found in deer shot near the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and in Ballard County about 15 miles away.

Analyses reported by Bechtel Jacobs, lead environmental contractor for the Department of Energy, show tiny amounts of uranium, neptunium, thorium and strontium in some of 10 deer shot in the two hunting areas.

The results, part of an ongoing study, compared deer killed during the summers of 1998 and 1999 in the West Kentucky Wildlife Management Area around the plant and in the Ballard County Wildlife Management Area ...

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