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Southern town stunned by layoffs in uranium plant
PIKETON Ohio loses at least 1400 jobs as U S Enrichment Corp shutters production at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and shifts work to Paducah Kentucky. About 1400 of 1900 jobs vanish in a year with remaining cuts by 2006. Residents fear unemployment, elders lament, while few alternatives emerge. An industrial park and a plastics firm loom as potential new anchors.
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Piketon
Ohio
Alice Gray
Portsmouth
Paducah
Appalachia
United States Enrichment Corp