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As EM begins to dismantle four massive electrical switchyards at the Paducah Site, the recycling of recovered materials and components is supporting local economic development while reducing or offsetting cleanup costs at the site.
Eleanor Polete, a sixth-grader at Heath Middle School, was recently selected as the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl t-shirt design contest for 2022.
EM has selected Joel Bradburne to serve as field manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Kentucky.
EM’s Paducah Site is constructing a key facility in the cleanup of the former gaseous diffusion plant.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently appointed a new member, and re-appointed five members to the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board (CAB).
Today, the Office of Environmental Management awarded a financial assistance grant to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services contract to North Wind Dynamics, LLC (NWD), a small business from Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Since the inception of the EM program in 1989, the Paducah Site has made notable achievements in groundwater cleanup, waste removal, and other work advancing its environmental cleanup mission following more than 60 years of uranium enrichment operations.
Work is underway at EM’s Portsmouth Site on the first of five legacy groundwater plumes to be excavated for soil needed in the newly constructed On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).
Employees of Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), the maintenance and operations contractor for EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project, recently surpassed 1 million working hours without a recordable injury or lost-time accident.