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Workers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth Site have reached another milestone by completing construction of the fourth cell at the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).
A radiation protection training supervisor has generated excitement in employee learning at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Site with the help of life-size board games, interactive competitions, and escape rooms where employees solve puzzles that require calculations, procedures and job knowledge to solve.
More than 100 people attended the first U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus event of the year, where officials spoke to the theme of “Cleanup Today for a Nuclear Tomorrow —How the DOE Office of Environmental Management is Helping to Unleash Energy Innovation and Commercial Nuclear Power.”
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth Site recently hosted the South Central Ohio High School Regional Science Bowl, where Valley High School reigned as the champion for the second year in a row and third time altogether.
X-330, the last of three former uranium enrichment process buildings set for demolition at the Portsmouth Site, received a new roof to prepare the building for deactivation, a necessary step before its teardown.
With the successful cleanup underway at the Oak Ridge Reservation serving as a “North Star,” the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is entering into a “unique moment” to redefine how it conducts its mission to contribute to broader DOE goals, EM Senior Advisor Roger Jarrell said here last week.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has the potential to play an important role in the “nuclear renaissance” underway in the United States, senior EM leaders said here last week.
Cleanup progress at the former Portsmouth and Paducah uranium enrichment plants is helping enable new opportunities for local communities to continue advancing U.S. energy and U.S. security goals, Joel Bradburne, manager of the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO), said here last week.
Electricians Jim Nowlin and Steve Brunner were among a crew that recently disconnected thick power cables feeding the X-333 Process Building to prepare for upcoming demolition activities at the Portsmouth Site.
If I had to characterize our status at PPPO right now, I would say it is transformative.