Night with the Experts:  Midnight Rockets: how the U.S. government

Night with the Experts:  Midnight Rockets: how the U.S. government

Thursday, June 26, 2025, 8:00 PMThe "Midnight Rockets" were not myths or isolated incidents—they were deliberate, engineered releases of radioactive gas from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Energy during and after the Cold War. Declassified documents from 1985 confirm that technetium-99 and uranium hexafluoride were routinely vented into the atmosphere through a 164-foot exhaust syste…