https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/em-capable-being-part-nuclear-...

https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/em-capable-being-part-nuclear-renaissance-leaders-say

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has the potential to play an important role in the “nuclear renaissance” underway in the United States, senior EM leaders said.Office of Environmental Managemen

tMarch 18, 2025

"....As a key example, senior EM leaders cited how the successful cleanup at the Oak Ridge Reservation has led to new nuclear companies choosing to locate there, including those planning new advanced reactors, nuclear fuel fabrication facilities and new enrichment capabilities.“

The opportunity for EM now is to use a proven and mature model for even more success,” Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Deputy Manager Erik Olds said.

At the Portsmouth Site, companies are also working to site new advanced reactors and enrichment facilities. And near the Paducah Site, crews are getting ready to break ground for a laser uranium enrichment facility that will reutilize stocks of EM-owned depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6), according to Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Manager Joel Bradburne.........."