August 15, 2023
Paducah Site Provides 130,000 Pounds of Food to Local Agencies
Through their DOE Feds Feed Families program, EM Paducah Site workers raised funds to purchase about 130,000 pounds of food for local nonprofits whose mission is to provide local families with reliable access to affordable, nutritious food.
August 8, 2023
Water Pump Project Improves Efficiency, Sustainability at Paducah Site
One of two new raw water pumps EM workers recently installed at the Paducah Site’s water treatment facility has reduced energy consumption for pumping water by approximately 63% and lowered water usage by about 1 million gallons per day.
August 1, 2023
New Emergency Operations Center Enhances Paducah’s Response Capabilities
EM’s Paducah Site recently completed construction of a 3,500-square-foot facility to house its new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and provide continuity for emergency management.
August 1, 2023
Paducah Provides Educators Tools to Connect Students to Careers
As science and technologies continue to rapidly advance, EM’s Paducah Site is equipping educators in western Kentucky with tools to connect students, who represent the next-generation workforce, to applications that will inspire careers in the fields.
July 25, 2023
Paducah Summer Internship Exceeds Students’ Expectations
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership Technical Services Summer Intern Catherine Creekmore, center, applies what she is learning in her internship to characterize materials found in process gas equipment in the C-333 Process Building with Paducah Site workers.
July 13, 2023
DOE Awards Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract
DOE EM awarded the Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract (PORTS D&D) to Southern Ohio Cleanup Company, LLC (SOCCo) of Aiken, South Carolina for work to be performed at the Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio.
July 11, 2023
EM, Advisory Board Team Up for Paducah’s Groundwater Cleanup Video
The Paducah Site and the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) have teamed up to produce a documentary video about EM’s groundwater cleanup program.
July 11, 2023
EM Awards $14 Million Fee to Portsmouth Site Contractor
EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) recently awarded $14 million, or about 95% of the available fee to the prime contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio for its performance in the first half of fiscal year 2023.
June 27, 2023
Paducah Builds Toward Ten-Year Goal to Significantly Reduce Site Hazards
EM workers continue to reduce chemical hazards at the Paducah Site with the recent shipment of 14 sodium fluoride traps, or exchange vessels, for off-site disposal and the elimination of the site’s entire chlorine gas cylinder inventory.
June 20, 2023
Six New Members Join Paducah Site’s Citizens Advisory Board
EM has appointed six new members to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board (CAB)