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With 50 Years at Oak Ridge, Employee’s Insight to Priority Project is Unmatched
Billy Starnes recently celebrated his 50th anniversary working in the oldest operating nuclear facility in the world, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
May 14, 2024
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SRNL Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Designation as a DOE National Laboratory
Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) last week marked the 20th anniversary of being designated as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory.
May 14, 2024
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EM SSAB Hears Updates From Avery, Tours Portsmouth Site
Stakeholders from eight cleanup sites recently met for the biannual two-day Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) National Chairs meeting in Chillicothe, Ohio, where they heard about progress across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) complex from EM leadership.
May 14, 2024
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Legacy Facilities Find New Life in Idaho Mission to Treat Challenging Waste
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continue to make progress using repurposed Cold War-era facilities to treat potentially hazardous metals, rendering them safe for offsite disposal.
May 14, 2024
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Hanford Demonstrates Improved Methods to Remove Pumps From Waste Tanks
Workers with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently demonstrated two improved methods they intend to use for removing an old hydraulic pump from a large, underground tank storing radioactive and chemical waste at the Hanford Site.
May 14, 2024
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Oak Ridge Completes First Phase of New Disposal Facility Project
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have completed the first phase of construction for the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF).
May 14, 2024
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West Valley Ships Eight Large Legacy Waste Containers for Disposal
Crews with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently met a fiscal year goal at the West Valley Demonstration Project by shipping eight containers of legacy waste each weighing up to 94,000 pounds for offsite disposal.
May 14, 2024
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Connected and Protected: Wireless Device Helps Combat Heat Stress at Hanford
Safety professionals with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently deployed a small device intended to have a big effect when it comes to worker safety at the Hanford Site.
May 14, 2024
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Hanford Plant Activates Permanent Heating on Second Melter
Crews at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently started the permanent joule heating system in the second of two melters in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility.
May 7, 2024
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Los Alamos Public Forum Engages Community on Chromium Project
More than 100 in-person and virtual attendees gathered at a recent Environmental Management Cleanup Forum to hear leadership from the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) discuss a mutual initiative for a hexavalent chromium groundwater plume beneath the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
May 7, 2024
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Working Group Looks to Future, Reflects on Past Decade
Marking 10 years since its formation, the DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel Working Group recently toured the Savannah River Site (SRS) and conducted a two-day meeting where its members discussed efforts to focus on going forward.
May 7, 2024
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Safety Fest TN Returns, Offering Free Training to Oak Ridge Community
Nearly 1,000 people from across the United States attended Safety Fest TN last week to take advantage of free safety and health training. The four-day event offered more than 130 courses, seminars and demonstrations on a wide range of topics.
May 7, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) mission is to address the nation’s Cold War environmental legacy resulting from decades of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. This legacy includes some of the world’s most dangerous radioactive sites with large amounts of radioactive wastes, spent nuclear fuel (SNF), excess plutonium and uranium, thousands of contaminated facilities, and contaminated soil and groundwater.
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Cleanup Sites
EM has been charged with the responsibility of cleaning up 107 sites across the country whose area is equal to the combined area of Rhode Island and Delaware.
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EM Clean Energy Land Reuse
EM supports the DOE initiative to increase energy production by identifying land available for potential development of Carbon Free Energy electricity generation through leases.
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