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Workers demolishing inactive facility at DOE’s Paducah site
PADUCAH, KY (KFVS) – The last 32 inactive facilities at the Department of Energy’s Paducah, Kentucky site are being demolished. The C-140 Feed Plant is expected to be razed to slab by fall, ridding the site of a structure contaminated with asbestos and a low-level radioactive chemical compound called uranium hexafluoride. With an original footprint […]
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Global Laser Enrichment chosen for proposed future operations at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant site
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will open negotiations with Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) for the sale of the depleted uranium hexafluoride inventory. The Department determined that GLE offered the greatest benefit to the government among those who responded to a Request for Offers (RFO) released earlier this year. Through […]
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Two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid shipped by DUF6 project
LEXINTON, KY. — Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services announces that the DUF6 [depleted uranium hexafluoride] Project has safely shipped more than two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid (HF) since it began conversion operations. More than one million gallons have been shipped from each of the two plants located in Piketon, OH and Paducah, KY. The […]
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DOE Issues Request for Quotations for Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Technical Services
Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for engineering and operations technical services to support the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office and the oversight of operations of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project located in Paducah KY, and Portsmouth OH. The RFQ is for a Time-and-Materials Task […]
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Train Derailment: Crews Now Working on Hydrogen Fluoride Cars
Crews successfully finished moving early Wednesday the chemical butadiene from the train derailment site in southwestern Jefferson County. The butadiene has been delivered to a rail yard, according to MetroSafe. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, crews began working to work on car containing another dangerous chemical, hydrogen fluoride, MetroSafe said. MetroSafe said the “trans-loading” — moving […]
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Train derailment: Workers begin unloading thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals from derailed tank cars in southwestern Louisville
With Dixie Highway closed again in southwestern Jefferson County and 31 nearby homes evacuated, the unloading of tens of thousands of gallons of dangerous chemicals from derailed rail cars began Tuesday and is expected to continue for at least three days. The evacuation and the closure of Dixie Highway from Ky. 44 to the Salt […]
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Train Derailment: Crews May Address Hydrogen Fluoride Cars Saturday
Update 9:45 p.m. Crews may attempt to stabilize and level two cars containing the dangerous gas hydrogen fluoride on Saturday afternoon — work that would require another shelter-in-place warning for a five-mile radius of the train derailment site near Dixie Highway and Katherine Station Road, said Doug Hamilton, executive director of Louisville-Jefferson County EMA/MetroSafe. On […]
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Ky. Evacuation Indefinite as Chemical Tanker Burns
Hundreds of people will remain forced from their homes indefinitely as a massive effort continued Friday to move derailed train cars filled with hazardous materials away from a car holding chemicals that continued to burn for a third day, officials said. “If we let them in prematurely, and God forbid had a catastrophic event … […]
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DOE cites LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky for worker safety and health & nuclear safety violations
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation (PNOV) to LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC (LATA KY) for violations of the Department’s worker safety and health and nuclear safety regulations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The violations are associated with a March 9, 2011, heat […]
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Paducah and Portsmouth Sites Advance Operations at DUF6 Plants
Paducah and Portsmouth – Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services (BWCS) began work at the Paducah and Portsmouth sites in March with the goal of making two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants fully operational. The DOE site operations contactor achieved that goal at 3:43 p.m. Sept. 30 when all seven conversion lines at the plants […]
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