March 12, 2024

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Paducah Community Members, DOE Leaders Set Sights on Clean Energy Future

Community leaders from Paducah, Kentucky, met with leaders from EM and DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) last week to discuss the path forward for making Paducah a “Nuclear Ready Community.”

March 5, 2024

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Paducah Site Celebrates Women’s Contributions in New Video

Each March, EM takes an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women across the DOE complex.

February 13, 2024

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Calloway County Middle School Advances to DOE National Science Bowl

Calloway County Middle School Team #1 on Friday won DOE’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl, an event recognized as the region’s most notable science competition for middle school students.

February 6, 2024

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Kentucky's Calloway County High School Advances to National Science Bowl

Calloway County High School Team #1 won this year’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl on Friday, culminating months of planning by volunteers and coaches for an event touted as the region’s most prominent science competition for high school students.

January 30, 2024

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New Paducah Facility to Ensure Safe Disposal of Process Building Equipment

EM’s Paducah Site recently celebrated the startup of a first-of-a-kind scanning facility to ensure equipment removal from massive process buildings are properly prepared for safe and compliant disposal.

January 9, 2024

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Paducah Photographer Shares Unique Perspective on Nuclear Cleanup

The axiom that a picture is worth a thousand words is especially true when communicating the complex work at DOE cleanup sites, according to Dylan Nichols, photographer for EM’s Paducah Site.

January 9, 2024

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Paducah Crews Downsizing Hundreds of Converters to Prepare for Demolition

How do you prepare to demolish a 1-million-square-foot facility? One piece at a time.

December 19, 2023

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Paducah Students ‘Break Through’ in Science Bowl T-Shirt Contest

The winners of this year’s DOE West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl T-shirt Design Contest celebrated “Making Breakthroughs” with their design.

December 19, 2023

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EM Awards Fees for Contractors’ Performance Across DOE Complex

EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Savannah River National Laboratory.

December 19, 2023

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Portsmouth, Paducah Communities Collaborate on Vision for Reuse of Sites

Envisioning a future for EM sites can be challenging for communities given the longevity of cleanup activities. However, when two sites have an almost identical footprint — in this case Portsmouth in Ohio and Paducah in Kentucky — the opportunity to see potential becomes clearer.