PPPO News

The U.S. Department of Energy’s community reuse organization at the Portsmouth Site is seeing decades of efforts to redevelop the former gaseous diffusion plant pay off.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management awarded the Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services contract to AIS Technical Services LLC, a small business from Tempe, Arizona, to perform infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site, including its gaseous diffusion plant.

Leadership from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management recently visited the Portsmouth Site to observe firsthand the accelerating pace of cleanup work actively clearing the path for future reuse and energy development.

Emergency preparedness teams recently participated in an annual graded exercise at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site but staying ready is something they practice all year long.

Operators at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site are uniquely prepared to take on the formidable demands of the legacy X-333 Process Building demolition — including new cutting-edge machines with powerful shear attachments that few in the world have handled.

In the latest major cleanup achievement for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site, crews converted depleted uranium hexafluoride from 4,500 legacy cylinders into safer, more stable chemical forms, representing more than 20% of the site’s cylinder inventory and marking progress toward reducing material left from decades of uranium enrichment.