Portsmouth News

Energy Department Approves Extension of Portsmouth Site Cleanup Contract

DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visited the Portsmouth Site last week to learn more about EM’s cleanup.

No, Damon Horn is not the “Six-Million-Dollar Man.” He doesn’t even try to imitate actor Lee Majors’s 1970s science fiction TV character.

EM’s Portsmouth Site recently rehabilitated 6 water wells, restoring them to the original design performance with substantially increased flow rates.

The Radpipers moved at an “impressively efficient pace” — up to 10 ft/minute — within the 30-inch & 42-inch-diameter uranium enrichment process pipes.

EM recently launched long-planned systems to safely handle the disposition of non-standard storage cylinders containing depleted uranium hexafluoride.

EM Assistant Secretary Anne White signed documents at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant marking the site’s land transfer to the local community.

DOE Awards Contract for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Technical Support Services Acquisition

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is moving forward to transfer the first parcel of federal property at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

EM Upgrades Portsmouth Emergency Management Facilities

EM recently hosted open houses, joining stakeholder organizations in discussing with local residents various community reindustrialization efforts.

Community Open House Series Focuses on Portsmouth Site Future Uses

Portsmouth Site Kicks Off Public Tours Season

EM & contractor officials last week highlighted progress with cleanup projects underway at the former Portsmouth and Paducah gaseous diffusion plants.

DOE has announced the availability of a limited number of monthly public tours of the Portsmouth site from April through October 2018.

Mid-America Conversion Services earned an award fee of $1,098,247 during its first annual performance evaluation by Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.

For the second consecutive year, Wheelersburg High School won the 2018 South Central Ohio Regional Science Bowl at Shawnee State University.

PPPO has launched a Facebook Page. PPPO will use the medium to communicate with the public and stakeholders about site cleanup and community outreach.

Joel B. Bradburne has been promoted to deputy manager of EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO).

EM’s PPPO recently partnered with the local community to complete a mutually beneficial recycling project at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

The annual Feds Feed Families food drive held by EM's PPPO and its contractors yielded almost nine tons of food for people in need this year.

More than 1,700 high school students from 31 southern Ohio high schools attended DOE’s Science Alliance event at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently toured EM’s Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site and received updates on deactivation and decommissioning.

EM and contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth are partnering with United Steelworkers to make a physically demanding and potentially hazardous job safer.

Last month’s recognition ceremony at Piketon High, where EM officials congratulated students who worked on the Ohio Univ Student ASER Summary Project.