The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has selected a new deputy manager for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.
Reinhard Knerr will take over the deputy manager role beginning on January 29th, and will be based out of Lexington. Knerr comes back to Kentucky from the Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico.
Knerr will assist Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office manager Joel Bradburne with guiding the Depleted Uranium Hexaflouride Conversion project in addition to the deactivation and demolition of the two former gaseous diffusion plants in Paducah and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Knerr previously served in planning and leadership roles in the Portsmouth/Paducah office from 2004 to 2020.
(Photo: EM has selected Reinhard Knerr, manager of the Carlsbad Field Office, to serve as deputy manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, effective Jan. 29.)
