Community leaders from Paducah, Kentucky, met with leaders from EM and DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) last week to discuss the path forward for making Paducah a “Nuclear Ready Community.”
Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office
March 12, 2024
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Community leaders from Paducah, Kentucky, met with leaders from EM and DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) last week to discuss the path forward for making Paducah a “Nuclear Ready Community.” Members of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress as well as officials from DOE and other federal agencies. “We clean up for the community,” EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White said to the community members. “Community involvement is always an emphasis for us.”
Pictured from left are Kristen Ellis, associate principal deputy assistant secretary for EM’s Office of Regulatory and Policy Affairs and EM acting director of regulatory, intergovernmental, and stakeholder engagement; Rob Gentry, Paducah Site plant manager, Mid-America Conversion Services; Cory Hicks, business services director, Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (FRNP); Maegan Mansfield, project manager for the Paducah DOE Reindustrialization Study, Bacon Farmer Workman Engineering and Testing; Sandra Wilson, president and CEO of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce and mayor pro tem for the City of Paducah; White; Jeff Avery, EM principal deputy assistant secretary; Craig Clymer, judge-executive, McCracken County Fiscal Court; Bruce Wilcox, president and CEO, Greater Paducah Economic Development; Myrna Redfield, president and CEO, FRNP; and Cheryl Moss-Herman, senior advisor, NE.