Announcements for LATA/Parallax Portsmouth, LLC at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in southern Ohio

Announcements

► A Public Meeting was held Thursday, August 14, 2008, at The Ohio State University Endeavor Center in Piketon, Ohio to update the public on progress of the cleanup program at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and introduce members of the newly-formed Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board for the Portsmouth site. Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and the various contractors at the site presented information and fielded questions from a large crowd in attendance. To view the slide presentation from the meeting, click here.

► A Public Meeting was held Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at The Ohio State University South Centers Auditorium to discuss environmental cleanup efforts at the plant site. Click here to view the slide presentation.

► A Public Meeting was held Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at The Ohio State University Endeavor Center to discuss environmental cleanup efforts at the plant site. Click here to view the slide presentation.

Bill Murphie, Manager, Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, officially announces completion of the major cleanup action and the availability for turnover of the X-7725 facility from DOE to USEC Inc. for industrial reuse by the commercial centrifuge program. ► The Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) held a ceremony at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant on July 27, 2007 to recognize completion of a major cleanup action with the removal of more than 49,000 containers of hazardous and mixed waste from the X-7725 building and the availability for turnover of the facility from DOE to USEC Inc. for industrial reuse Bill Murphie joins Larry Clark (center), DOE's Assistant Manager For Nuclear Fuel Supply, in presenting a ceremonial key to the facility to Dan Rogers, Director, American Centrifuge Plant. by the commercial centrifuge program.

The cleanup action reduced more than 20,000 tons of waste generated from the nearly 50 years of uranium enrichment operations formerly at the plant and from cleanup activities conducted since the early 1990s. The volume of waste removed from the building would cover a football field nearly 14 feet deep. (Click here to see news release and graphic).

LATA/Parallax, DOE's environmental remediation contractor, removed the last containers from the building on May 31, 2007 to free up the more than 265,000 square feet of storage space.

This achievement meets DOE's commitment to make the facility available to USEC Inc. on July 31 for reuse by a commercial centrifuge program that will begin full operations in 2012.

► The U.S. Department of Energy held a public meeting on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 to discuss the Environmental Management Program at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Project updates were provided to the approximately 60 attendees: the DUF6 conversion plant progress by John McCoy, Uranium Disposition Services; the environmental cleanup by LATA/Parallax Project Manager Paul Kreitz; Cold Shutdown of the gaseous diffusion plant by USEC's General Manager Wray Jordan; and planning for decontamination and decommissioning of the GDP by DOE's Jud Lilly. Bill Murphie, Manager of the DOE's Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, kicked off the meeting and fielded questions following the presentation. (Slide Presentation)

► LATA/Parallax Portsmouth, LLC (LPP) received the "Group Safety Award" for 2005 from the Ross County Safety Council. The council, a managed program of the Ross County Chamber of Commerce and subsidized by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, recognized LPP as the company with the lowest incident rate in a safety council group.

► LATA/Parallax Portsmouth, LLC also received the "100 Percent Award" for 2005 from the Ross County Safety Council. The council recognized LPP "for outstanding effort by supervisory personnel and employees in operating the entire year without a lost-time injury."

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