Portsmouth Paducah Project Office

The U.S. Department of Energy recently bestowed Office of Environmental Management employees and teams with seven Secretary’s Honor Awards, recognizing their exceptional leadership, innovation and commitment to restoring and revitalizing sites as DOE cleans the legacy of the past to power America’s future.

Building on the successful removal of 497 converters from the C-333 Process Building earlier this year, workers effectively segmented the first fissile converter from the second of four former uranium enrichment facilities undergoing deactivation at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management University Programs are building a workforce pipeline to help complete the legacy nuclear cleanup mission.

Cleanup teams recently created a new database to keep equipment organized, save money and stick to the schedule of safely and efficiently demolishing a 33-acre legacy uranium enrichment building at the Portsmouth Site.