Harrison, Ohio: Hike Quickly Over Uranium Nuke Plant Waste

Super-secret former Fernald Feed Materials Production Center is rehabilitated and open since 2008 as a nature preserve, with "Cold War Garden," "Weapons to Wetlands" trails, interpretive signs, radiation monitors, visitor center and museum.

Fernald Preserve

Address:: 7400 Willey Road, Harrison, OH
Directions:: Fernald Preserve. I-74 Exit 7, north onn State Route 128 (Hamilton-Cleves Highway) through Miamitown for 7 miles. Left on Willey Road 1/4 mile.
Hours:: Daily 7am-dusk. Visitors Center W-Sa 9-5 (Call to verify)
Phone:: 513-648-4899

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Hike Quickly Over Uranium Nuke Plant Waste

The visitor center is LEED Platinum certified (1st in OH, very impressive) and the surrounding recovered wetlands are now home to 212 species of birds, with a small family of rare ducks (Garganey) being the most recent. Exhibits are first rate and very educational. It's somehow oddly inspiring that a former source of so much environmental harm ultimately set the standard for environmental clean up and cutting edge energy efficient building. [Rebeccs, 05/14/2011]

[RA: The once secret nuclear Fernald Feed Materials Production Center has been cleaned up and transformed into a nature preserve, with a "Cold War Garden," "Weapons to Wetlands" trails, interpretive signs, radiation monitors, visitor center and a museum.]

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May 25, 2012