Portsmouth News

Security forces at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites are streamlining programs and services to strengthen protection of personnel, property and information, enabling more focus on completing cleanup and supporting future use opportunities at the sites. August 4, 2026

Bringing together third grade students, high school mentors and interactive learning stations proved successful to introduce students to a wide range of career paths at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site. July 14, 2026

Heavy equipment and engineered design plans are not the only aspects of facility demolition at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site. June 30, 2026

Past planning efforts and collaboration are leading to future energy and economic development in southern Ohio, particularly at the Portsmouth Site, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joel Bradburne, who recently served as the keynote speaker at the Appalachian Ohio State of the Region Conference at Ohio University. June 16, 2026

Crews taking down the largest former uranium enrichment facility in the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site recently removed the last of its nearly 15,000 panels containing asbestos, a marker of progress toward the aging structure’s demolition. June 9, 2026

Two universities in Ohio and Kentucky are collaborating to build STEM interest in local high school students and inspire them to pursue careers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites. May 26, 2026

Two educators in communities near the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, locations are maximizing resources to help cultivate the next generation of talent to advance the nation’s energy sector and future redevelopment at the DOE sites. May 19, 2026

Demolition crews recently unleashed equipment, dubbed locally as the “Empress,” to begin tearing through the steel framework of the X-333 Process Building at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site. May 5, 2026

Decades of uranium enrichment operations at two former gaseous diffusion plants yielded thousands of cylinders of depleted uranium hexafluoride, or DUF6, that accumulated in storage yards. April 21, 2026

SB Energy, a SoftBank Group company, recently announced a unique public-private partnership to construct the world’s largest artificial intelligence data center on leased land at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site. April 7, 2026