2025 Accomplishments
Cleanup crews are wrapping up work to prepare the C-333 Process Building for future demolition. December 16, 2025
The Portsmouth Site announced the start of structural demolition on the X-333 Process Building last month, almost 70 years to the day it was turned over to the Atomic Energy Commission, a predecessor agency to the U.S. Department of Energy, to assume the facility’s role in fueling America’s fight in the Cold War. December 9, 2025
Paducah Site Lead April Ladd speaks to local high school students during a panel discussion at the recent Engineering Empowerment Day, hosted by the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. December 9, 2025
With crews in the early stages of demolishing X-333, the second of the Portsmouth Site’s three former uranium process buildings, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders at the site are emphasizing the number one priority: safety of the workforce and community. November 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office has issued an Expression of Interest seeking input from industry on operationally mature technologies capable of supporting the potential reuse of approximately 9,700 tons of volumetrically contaminated nickel stored at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky.
Workers have begun demolishing the massive X-333 Process Building, achieving a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management priority to begin demolition of the second of the Portsmouth Site’s three former uranium process buildings. November 18 , 2025
Public tour participants heard firsthand accounts from past employees of the former gaseous diffusion plants at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites this year. November 18, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management today issued a Request for Offer seeking proposals from companies to build and power AI data centers on DOE’s Paducah site.
As the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management works to enable American energy and security, innovative approaches and strong partnerships at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites drive efforts to transform liabilities into assets to help unleash nuclear power.