The Dylan Nichols Paducah Collection

Deactivation crews in the C-333 Process Building load process gas equipment into a high-sided gondola in the south truck alley.

Deactivation crews move loose process gas equipment from the C-333 Process Building to be scanned by nondestructive assay technicians.

Deactivation crews lower a roll-off bin with debris from cell housing removal in Unit 6 Cell 4 of the C-333 Process Building.

Marvin Loverkamp (left) and Ben Bessette remove insulators from towers as crews continue the dismantlement of the C-535 switchyard.

FRNP Characterization Laboratory Scientist, Jonathan Vaughan secures a cap on 1s cylinder inside a glove box in the C-331 Process Building. The 1s/2s cylinder capping effort is one of the activities FRNP has added to their Path to Excellence for FY24.

Deactivation crews remove and load NaF Traps from C-310 into ST-90s for disposition.

FRNP Nondestructive Assay Field Operations Manager Tyler Coriell; Enterprise Technical Assistance Services Senior Nuclear Safety Engineer Allen Townsend; FRNP Nondestructive Assay Manager Rick Williams; and EM Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Safety Systems Oversight Richard Mayer walk down the assembly of detectors in the Large Item Neutron Assay System chamber.

Material sizing area (MSA) crews lift a surrogate converter into the dust collection system during the on-going MSA readiness demonstration. The MSA crew segmented the surrogate converter as the team prepared for operations during the readiness assessment.

FRNP Deactivation Maintenance Mechanic, Gabe Puckett, installs welding curtains on the dust collection system in Unit 6 Cell 3 of the C-333 Process Building during Phase II construction of the material sizing area.

Nondestructive assay technicians perform a demonstration of a robotic pipe crawler in a surrogate pipe.

U.S. Department of Energy Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Safety Systems Oversight, Brad Pont (left) leads Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Jeff Avery (right) on a tour the Paducah site.

Nondestructive assay data analyst, Emily Coriell, demonstrates a pipe crawling robot at the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce STEM 4 Girls event. More than 70 young girls attended the event to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

The Paducah site maintains a protective force to safeguard the site and its employees. Security Police Officers routinely train and demonstrate their proficiency in the recently constructed C-208 firing range.

Workers remove panels from the C-340 Metals Plant at the Paducah site to prepare the building for demolition.

Workers collect samples from a storage tank at the above ground treatment unit at the C-400 Cleaning Building at the Paducah site.

Paducah deactivation crews inspect equipment during the start of a shift during the deactivation of the C-400 Cleaning Building.

An excavator shears debris from the demolition of the C-410/C-420 complex at the Paducah site.

Geologists Rob Flynn and Ken Davis (foreground) examine a soil sample taken during the northeast plume optimization project at the Paducah site.

Local middle school students conduct a field experiment during an education outreach activity with scientists from the environmental management sampling team at the Paducah site.

Students from local middle schools get the chance to get up close and personal with waterfowl at the U.S. Department of Energy EcoFair in the neighboring West Kentucky Wildlife Management Area.

A student at Ballard County Elementary School screams into an instrument to measure noise levels during a career day presentation with health and safety technicians from the site.

Community Outreach Specialist, Steve Christmas (right) uses water bottles and a groundwater model to explain to students at Lone Oak Middle School how contamination effects aquifers and how those aquifers are sampled.

Heath Middle School celebrates winning first place at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Bowl West Kentucky Regional. The Science Bowl is an annual competition hosted by DOE that brings in schools from across the region to test their knowledge in science, technology, engineering and math.

Deactivation workers at the U.S. Department of Energy Paducah Site use a plasma torch to cut process gas equipment free from the uranium enrichment cascade in the C-333 Process Building.