DOE Extends Contract to Operate Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Plants

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) today announced it is extending its contract for Operations of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities at Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio for a period of up to four months. The contract period for the current contractor, BWXT Conversion Services LLC (BWCS), […]

Warren County: Perils of fluoride prominent at Fiscal Court

A Warren County resident brought an issue concerning water safety to the attention of Warren County Fiscal Court on Friday. Daniel Johnson, a member of Kentuckians Against Fluoridation, presented the court a number of reasons he thinks adding fluoride to tap water should be discontinued. Johnson described fluoridation as unnecessary and unethical, saying such measures violate […]

Demolition changes Paducah skyline

The demolition of a former feed plant complex at Paducah site has dramatically changed the skyline of the former uranium enrichment site. The C-410/C-420 Feed Plant was built at the Kentucky site in 1956 to produce uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for enrichment, and stood in the centre of the gaseous diffusion enrichment plant. It operated until 1977, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]