The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office said last week it is again issuing a five-year, $2.5-million grant to Ohio University to further redevelopment work at the Portsmouth Site in Pike County, Ohio.
Since 2016, the university has received $8.2 million from the DOE Office of Environmental Management to advance stakeholder cleanup information and evaluate future uses of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant property near Piketon, the agency said in a Sept. 27 press release.
The prior grant expired Friday Sept. 30 and the new one runs from Oct. 1, through September 30, 2027, according to the release.
“Ohio University is an outstanding asset for DOE and the communities surrounding the Portsmouth site,” Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Manager Joel Bradburne said in the release.
Grant money has been used in the past for such projects as having high school students write a public summary of the Annual Site Environmental Report.
