PPPO News Archive

Murray Middle School won their division at the West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl, advancing to DOE National Science Bowl®.

EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project completed several plant modifications at its Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky facilities.

Paducah Tilghman High School Advances to DOE National Science Bowl® by winning the 13th Annual West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl.

A winning design by eighth-grader Kaylee Tharp will decorate the official t-shirt of DOE’s 13th Annual West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl.

PPPO employees and contractors devised innovative ways to continue their holiday giving campaigns this year while adhering to COVID-19 protocols.

The award is given to companies that demonstrate outstanding stewardship of Kentucky’s environment through energy conservation and air quality.

EM recently launched a remodeled version of its popular virtual museum website covering the history of the Portsmouth Site.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Swift & Staley, Inc.

EM is scheduled this year to remove 750,000 Pounds of R-114 refrigerant, commonly known as Freon, from the Paducah Site.

Workers for the deactivation and decommissioning prime contractor at the Portsmouth Site recently celebrated 4 million safe work hours without a lost.

EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office is installing the water treatment system for its On-Site Waste Disposal Facility.

EM’s Paducah Site has been the safe operation of the system to treat and reduce groundwater contamination.

Additional air monitoring stations are being installed that will enhance environmental and radiological data collection during demolition.

The first shipment of depleted uranium oxide (DUO) product recently left the Paducah Site in Kentucky and safely reached its final destination.

EM's Paducah Site recently removed approximately 42 percent of the site’s enriched uranium inventory with a shipment of cold traps.

While adapting operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, EM has continued closing in on a key 2020 priority to begin demolition at the Portsmouth Site.

A virtual science, technology, engineering, and math camp supported by a grant from EM was conducted recently.

PPPO's Paducah Site raised 27,810 pounds of food for local charities during July as part of DOE's Feds Feed Families effort.

The U.S. Department of Energy today issued a formal Record of Decision (ROD) for the safe shipment and disposal of depleted uranium oxide.

Paducah Site clears infrastructure to facilitate investigation in preparation for demolition of the C-400 Building.

EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office is set to make the first major skyline change later this year with demolition beginning on the X-326 building.

Growing up in Kentucky’s capital of Frankfort, Tyler Hicks knew a lot of state employees.

On February 21, 2020, a team from Lone Oak Middle School of Paducah, Kentucky won the U.S. Department of Energy’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl.

Louisville science teacher Amy Shumate last year visited the Paducah Site and plans to incorporate what she learned into her instruction.

The Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget request provides the resources for strong progress in the department’s cleanup mission.