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 23, 2024

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U.S. Agencies Recognize Portsmouth Team for Climate Science Contributions

National weather agencies recently recognized workers at EM's Portsmouth Site for their contributions to climate science.

January 16, 2024

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Portsmouth Environmental Samplers Create Safer Work Conditions

Environmental science technicians have upgraded their equipment and taken other steps to make jobs safer at EM’s Portsmouth Site, helping eliminate slip, trip and fall hazards at multiple difficult-to-reach locations.

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.

December 19, 2023

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Paducah Removes 1 Million Pounds of Hazardous Refrigerant in 2023

The Paducah Site recently met an EM 2023 priority ahead of schedule with the safe and successful disposal of over 1 million pounds of R-114 refrigerant, an environmental hazard stored at the site.