PPPO News

Employees using a tow motor to move a large cylinder
Recent upgrades have significantly improved operational efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, sites.
A group of employees in safety gear participate in a training
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.
Collage of DOE leadership and Congress members speaking at a podium
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.”
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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.
A man stands behind a podium on a stage and gives a speech
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.