During the next five years, DOE will make several critical decisions. Two decisions that could affect the direction and speed of the remainder of the cleanup will come in the next 18 months — how to remediate the site’s 60 acres of waste burial grounds and what to do with the materials removed from these old landfills and other cleanup projects.
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Because of a suggestion from the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board, DOE is examining a change in how materials are recycled/reused that could affect cleanup projects across the nation.
Public comments resulted in a change in where to build facilities to convert depleted uranium hexafluoride into a safer form. As a result, such a facility will open in Paducah next year.
Divergent public opinions on how to handle long-term waste disposal have resulted in different solutions at DOE sites in Colorado, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Public comments resulted in Congress creating a separate DOE office to oversee cleanup in Paducah and Portsmouth (OH).
Public comments changed DOE’s original groundwater cleanup plan.