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Crews at the Portsmouth Site recently completed construction of a storage tank designed to hold 1 million gallons of wastewater and leachate from the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility.

Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Manager Joel Bradburne speaks to members of the PPPO workforce gathered at the Paducah Site for the “Success Powered by Safety” celebration.

Union safety representatives at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth Site have been busy expanding their knowledge to better serve all workers.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to more stable compounds recently returned to full operations at both the Portsmouth and Paducah sites’ first-of-a-kind facilities.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office recently installed Pike County’s first publicly available electric vehicle charging stations using DOE grant funding received as part of the Green Fleet Award.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and an association that helps worksites advance safety and health goals recently presented 21 awards to contractors across the cleanup complex — from Washington and New Mexico to New York and South Carolina — for achievements in safety, health, innovation and outreach.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth Site’s nearly 50 summer interns have a lot to share with their families about what they learned this year, but Drea Tannehill and Britton Kritzwiser can skip the history. That’s because they both are the third generation in their families to work at the site.

Watch interns in action through the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO), and listen as they share perspectives on their experiences at EM’s Portsmouth, Paducah, and Lexington sites this summer as PPPO prepared them for the next generation workforce.

Internship programs at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Portsmouth, Paducah, and Lexington sites began a new, collaborative effort this summer aimed at enhancing knowledge-sharing and professional development.

Six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites are among a group of award winners who collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions last year by more than 565,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which equates to taking 121,000 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.