The Energy Department said Friday it would for a fifth year open the onetime Portsmouth uranium enrichment facility in Ohio up for public tours.
Those interested in touring the facility this year should contact Sandy Childers either by phone at (740) 897-2336 or by email at sandy.childers@fbports.com. Messages should include a name and a daytime phone number, DOE said. The deadline to register for the first tour is March 4. They are offered free of charge and on a first-come, first-served basis.
According to DOE, available tour dates are:
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016
The roughly Portsmouth site, located about 100 miles south of Columbus, Ohio, from the early 1950s roduced highly enriched uranium for the Pentagon and low-enriched uranium for commercial reactors.Fluor-B&W Portsmouth of Piketon is DOE’s prime contractor on the cleanup under a contract awarded in 2010 and potentially worth about $2 billion over 10 years.
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