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.
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.
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.
The Paducah Site and the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) have teamed up to produce a documentary video about EM’s groundwater cleanup program.
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.
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.
EM has appointed six new members to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board (CAB)
Jeff Avery, EM principal deputy assistant secretary, participated in the 2023 Energy Communities Alliance Forum panel.
Students from three regional high schools recently teamed up for Hack the Plastics, an event created by EM’s Paducah Site cleanup contractor to “hack,” or propose solutions, to help solve a part of the global plastics waste problem.
EM has successfully commenced a major disposal effort for a key uranium-enrichment byproduct with the recent arrival of 60 uranium-oxide storage cylinders by rail at a licensed facility in west Texas.