September 2015

Targeted Review of the Fire Protection Program at the Paducah Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) conducted a targeted review of the fire protection program at the Paducah Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility in Paducah, Kentucky.  The conversion facility is on the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site but is operated under a separate contract to DOE by Babcock and Wilcox Conversion Services.  This review was one part of a targeted assessment of fire protection at nuclear facilities across the DOE complex.  The purpose of this review was to evaluate the selected fire protection elements and provide information to the site and responsible DOE line management organizations for benchmarking their program’s effectiveness.  EA performed the onsite portions of this targeted review from July 7 to 10, 2014, and July 21 to 25, 2014.