Calloway Middle School Honored at DOE National Science Bowl


Calloway County Middle School won the Civility Award and was named one of the top six battery-powered model car design teams at the Department of Energy's National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C. DOE National Science Bowl staff and competitors voted on the Civility Award, which exemplifies character, sportsmanship, and a goal-driven future [...]

DOE's Top Environmental Cleanup Official Visits Paducah Site


Cost-efficiency is a top priority as the Department of Energy makes challenging decisions on how to best use environmental cleanup dollars, said Dave Huizenga, Senior Advisor of DOE Environmental Management (EM). "We're trying to manage projects in a responsible way for the taxpayers and to get work done at your facilities," Huizenga told those attending the semiannual DOE Site-Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) Chairs Meeting [...]

Heath Middle School Science StudentsStudy Environmental Issue at DOE's Paducah Site



Twenty-six of Heath Middle School's brightest science students spent the 2011-12 school year helping the U.S. Department of Energy try to resolve a real environmental issue at the Paducah Site. Mentors assigned to each grade - sixth, seventh, and eighth - taught students investigative techniques as the school year progressed. [...]

Southwest Plume Cleanup to Start By Summer 2013 At DOE's Paducah Site



The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, andKentucky Department for Environmental Protection have reached another milestone toward the objectiveof reducing groundwater contamination at DOE's Paducah Site.[...]

Cost-Efficient Work Rids DOE's Paducah Site of Old Facilities



Old storage trailers and large metal containers are vanishing from the Department of Energy's Paducah Site at no extra cost to the government as a result of about $150,000 in labor efficiencies and other savings in the work scope of cleanup contractor LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky[...]

Calloway County Middle School Wins DOE Regional Science Bowl



Calloway County is the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional Middle School Science Bowl winner and will compete in the National Science Bowl April 26-30 in Washington, D.C. The five-student Calloway County team won the Feb. 24 regional competition [...]

LATA Kentucky, B&W, Swift and Staley Receive Governor's Safety and Health Award



The Kentucky Labor Cabinet has awarded LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC; Babcock and Wilcox Conversion Services, LLC; and Swift and Staley Mechanical Contractors, Inc., with a Governor's Safety and Health Award for having worked more than 1 million hours without a lost-time accident or injury[...]

DOE, Contractors Share Cost and Benefits of Software Training



Fourteen people from the Department of Energy and three of its prime contractors participated in training in early January near the Paducah Site to improve computer software-related job performance and product quality.[...]

Lone Oak High School Wins DOE Regional Science Bowl



Lone Oak High School is the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional High School Science Bowl winner and will compete in the National Science Bowl April 26-30 in Washington, D.C. The five-student Lone Oak team won the Feb. 10 regional competition in Crounse Hall on the University of Kentucky Extension Campus at West Kentucky Community & Technical College. [...]

UK Students Imagine DOE's Paducah Site As Future Technical-Industrial Hub



Twelve University of Kentucky College of Design students envision the Department of Energy's Paducah Site as a future thriving, multiple-use area.The Atomic Cities Research Team is studying how to preserve, replace, or even build on the more than 3,000 direct and indirect jobs the site currently supports [...]

Southwest Plume Sources Proposed Plan Approved



The Department of Energy has received regulatory approval of a Proposed Plan to clean up three sources contributing to the Southwest Plume of contaminated groundwater at the Paducah Site. The Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the Proposed Plan in late September.

Feed Plant Additional Accelerated Cleanup Completed



 At the end of the last quarter LATA Kentucky completed final additional accelerated-cleanup activities at the Feed Plant complex, marking a major American Recovery and Reinvestment Act milestone. The "buyback" work scope included demolishing a uranium hexafluoride (UF6) tie line bridge, isolating six cold traps (condensers) from the UF6 system, and isolating five fluorine reactor towers

Department of Energy's Paducah Site Reaches Million-Hour Safety Milestone



The U.S. Department of Energy's Paducah Site has reached a million hours of safe work toward completing cleanup objectives to reduce environmental risk. The LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky Team, the Department's prime contractor, in October reached a milestone of 1 million hours without a lost workday case due to job-related illness or injury.

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