There was “no impact” to Department of Environmental Management sites in Kentucky and Tennessee after a rash of unusual late-autumn tornados wrought death and destruction across the middle of the country over the weekend.
“Thankfully, no impact to our EM sites,” a spokesperson for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) wrote Monday morning in an email when asked over the weekend whether there had been damage, injuries or disruption at agency sites in Paducah, Ky., Lexington, Ky., Oak Ridge, Tenn., or elsewhere.
Media had reported dozens of deaths by Monday. The New York Times put the death toll in Kentucky at about 70, as of Monday morning.
