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Disposal work at Piketon facility completed | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that disposal of 5.7 million pounds of excess plant oils has been completed by its Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.
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The work was part of deactivation activities being done by USEC to prepare the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon for decontamination and decommissioning.
According to DOE, the removal and disposal of the motor lubricating oils and transformer oils used during uranium enrichment activities at the plant in the past has been a major achievement \to remove a significant fire hazard, eliminate the potential for an environmental release and minimize hazards for workers during decontamination and decommissioning.
The plant stopped producing enriched uranium in 2001 and has been in cold shutdown since 2005. The oil disposition work started in 2006 and was stepped up this year -- with 4.1 million of the 5.7 million pounds being removed in just more than nine months this year.
The excess oils were incinerated at the Clean Harbors Commercial Incineration Facility in Deer Park, Texas.
NRC - NRC Requires Improvements at USEC Paducah Facility
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued three Confirmatory Orders to the United States Enrichment Corporation’s Paducah, Ky., facility as part of settlement agreements involving three unrelated issues.
One issue involved operators concealing damaged equipment and falsifying records while moving a uranium hexafluoride cylinder. In the second issue, classified information was mishandled when a package was sent to an unapproved mailing address. The third issue stemmed from a U.S. Department of Labor decision that USEC retaliated against a former manager and an NRC concern for the potential influence this would have on the willingness of other employees to raise safety concerns.
In each case, USEC requested the alternative dispute resolution process, which includes the use of a mediator, to resolve its differences with the NRC concerning the apparent violations and to discuss corrective actions. The confirmatory orders document USEC’s commitments to the NRC reached as part of the NRC’s ADR process, which can be requested in place of traditional NRC enforcement. Often, the ADR process is more effective in developing effective long-term corrective actions than traditional enforcement.
West Kentucky Star - Whitfield Works to Protect Sick Workers' Families
U.S. Representative Ed Whitfield (KY-01) introduced legislation Thursday in the House of Representatives, to ensure surviving family members are able to receive the benefits of sick workers from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in the event the former worker dies before claims processing is complete. The legislation is identical to the bill U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) introduced in the Senate last week.
“Since entering Congress, ensuring sick workers from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant get the care and compensation they are entitled to has been one of my top priorities,” Whitfield said. “This important legislation will help make certain the surviving family members of those workers are taken care of in the event they pass on before claims processing is complete.”
Portsmouth Daily Times - Committees Discuss Cleanup
Members of a committee helping to oversee cleanup of nuclear waste at the site of the now-closed Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant here met with their counterparts who worked with the cleanup of the former Feed Material Production Center in Fernald, near Cincinnati.
The Fernald plant, built by the Atomic Energy Commission, produced more than 500 million pounds of uranium metal from 1952 to 1989, said Johnny Reising, site director for the Fernald closing project for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Cleanup of the radioactive waste byproducts, stored in metal cylinders above ground, began in the 1980s and, after nearly 25 years, is now completed. The cost was nearly $4.5 billion.
The News and Tribune - Amendments may kill energy legislation
Amendments to lift restrictions on nuclear plant construction in Kentucky and allow drilling for oil and gas on state property might be enough to nuke Gov. Steve Beshear’s energy bill in the House.
House Bill 537, sponsored by Majority Leader Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, would establish benchmarks for producing more of the state’s energy needs from renewable sources, biofuels, coal-to-liquid fuels and such forms of transportation fuels as electric hybrid engines and ethanol by the year 2025. It would also require reducing demand by 25 percent by that time through conservation and efficiency measures. It passed the House easily in its original form and seemed on its way to passage in the Senate.
Nuclear Power Bill Clears House Committee - KYPost.com
Kentucky's long-standing ban on nuclear power plants would be lifted, under a proposal that cleared a House panel Thursday.
State law currently says that a nuclear power plant may not be built in Kentucky until there is a permanent storage facility to contain the nuclear waste. Sen. Bob Leeper, an independent from Paducah, is sponsoring legislation that would change that.
There is no permanent nuclear waste storage facility in the country.
Leeper's measure cleared the House Tourism Development and Energy Committee on a 12-6 vote. It heads to the full House for consideration.
The Morehead News - Senate approves nuclear energy bill
Kentucky Senate voted 29-6 Thursday to approve a bill that would use national standards for nuclear waste disposal instead of current state regulations.
The bill allows the Public Service Commission to approve a nuclear plant if there is a plan for waste storage.
Nuclear facilities are required to have a plan for permanent disposal but there is no such site.
Bill would end nuclear power moratorium | The Courier-Journal
A Senate committee passed a bill yesterday that could open the door to construction of nuclear power plants in Kentucky.
Senate Bill 13 would rescind a 1984 state law that placed a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants until the federal government determines how to safely dispose of high-level nuclear waste.
Sen. Bob Leeper, a Paducah independent, told the committee that his legislation would allow the state to begin talking about nuclear power as an option. But, he said, the Public Service Commission could be expected to block construction of such a plant until a long-term storage option is found.
Members picked for DOE advisory board | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette
The Energy Department Wednesday released the names of the 20 board members for a new advisory board at the Piketon uranium enrichment facility and set the board's first meeting
The board, which will meet for the first time in September, will advise the DOE on environmental matters.
Among the members are Piketon Mayor Billy Spencer and Waverly school board member Sharon Manson, Lorry Swain of the Southern Ohio Neighbors Group, Ohio University chemical engineering professor Nicholas Dinos and Shawnee State history professor Andrew Feight.
Atomic bomb survivor shares her story - Kentucky.com
Miyoko Watanabe had just walked out of her house in Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when she saw a flash of orange and yellow light.
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