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 … […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recovery Act Investment Accelerates Cleanup Work at DOE’s Paducah Site
Paducah, KY – A significant part of the C-410 Feed Plant complex at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah Site has been demolished thanks to ongoing American Recovery and Reinvestment Act work. Demolition of the eastern third of the building, covering about half an acre, was completed in late June – exactly three months ahead of […]
Marathon Shuts Unit After Release at Catlettsburg Refinery
Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) shut a unit at its Catlettsburg refinery in Kentucky after a leak of hydrogen fluoride late yesterday, according to a filing with the National Response Center. Hydrogen fluoride was released from a pinhole leak in piping, according to the filing. The unit was shut and workers were isolating it and planning […]
The city of Murray pays $1,560 a ton for sodium fluoride
Excerpt: … The council also accepted bids from Brenntag for chemicals for the water and wastewater departments. The city will pay $395 a ton for sodium hydroxide, $588 a ton for chlorine cylinders, $821 a ton for sulfur dioxide and 78 cents a pound for sodium fluoride. Public Works Director J.L. Barnett said prices had […]
Paducah Gaseous Enrichment Plant; Confirmatory Order (Effective Immediately)
In the Matter of United States Enrichment Corporation, Paducah Gaseous Enrichment Plant; Confirmatory Order (Effective Immediately) I The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), a subsidiary of USEC Inc., is the holder of NRC Certificates of Compliance (COC) No. GDP-1 issued by the NRC pursuant to 10 CFR Part 76 on November 26, 1996, and renewed […]
Southwire to Pay Unprecedented Fine for Clean Air Act Violations
(Atlanta, Ga. – July 23, 2009) In the largest civil settlement obtained for alleged violations of the Secondary Aluminum Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) regulations at a single facility in the Southeastern United States, Southwire Company has agreed to pay a total of $337,500 in civil penalties to the United States and the Commonwealth of […]
Louisville, Kentucky: Du Pont considers $178 million vinyl fluoride/Tedlar project
West Louisville’s Rubbertown neighborhood — hard hit by job cuts in recent years — finally might be getting a bit of good employment news. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., the Wilmington, Del.-based chemical company, is considering an expansion of its long-running Freon plant at 4200 Camp Ground Road. It closed its neighboring Neoprene […]