Welcome to the second episode of Protect Jonesborough Podcast!

In this episode we recap the January 6th, 2026 Regional Planning Meeting.

Thank you all for showing up and making your voices heard! We filled two courtrooms and the hallway. The planning committee voted 4-2 to recommend to DENY this rezoning!

We're not out of the woods yet, but this is a big deal and would not have happened without all of us standing up together and speaking out. We are so proud of our community!

UPCOMING MEETING! WHAT: County Commission Meeting WHEN: JANUARY 26TH - 6PM WHERE: Courtroom 7 of the George P. Jaynes Justice Center, 108 W Jackson Blvd, Jonesborough

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🌐 Protect Jonesborough Official Website

✍️ Sign the petition to stop this expansion

GoFundMe - Give to Protect Jonesborough

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📺 Watch the full live stream here

📝 Community Questions For BWXT

🏙️ Washington County Land Use and Transportation Policy Plan

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BWXT wants to expand into doing High Purity Depleted-Uranium Processing in Jonesborough — directly inside of our community!

This isn’t rumor. This is from federal .gov sources and the company itself. And here’s the part that every resident needs to understand:

This is not the same operation that Aerojet used to run.

Yes — depleted uranium work has happened on this land in the past. But the new plan is massively different in scale, purpose, and environmental risk.

This is uranium chemical conversion and metal manufacturing at industrial scale — in a floodplain, next to homes, farms, wells, and creeks that feed the Nolichucky watershed.

The Pattern Is Clear:

Every site that has ever processed High Purity Depleted Uranium has become a contaminated Superfund cleanup site. Federal and state regulators now cite these sites as warning examples of what should never be repeated!

Groundwater & soil contamination Radiological and heavy metal exposure Unusable wells/land Decades-long, multimillion-dollar cleanup Property value collapse Permanent legacy of regret

If Washington County allows uranium processing next to residential and agricultural land, it will be repeating a pattern that has already failed — at immense public cost — everywhere it has ever been tried.

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