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Contractor teams recently collaborated to transfer 4,000 gallons of wastewater between two Hanford Site facilities.

David Lu, completed his summer internship at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) headquarters in Washington, D.C. in August. Later that month, he toured the EM Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Plant at the Paducah Site near his hometown of Murray, Kentucky.

Stakeholders, such as farmers, industry, and local, regional, and national planners, have a powerful, free, and easy-to-access data portal at their command to unlock the power of bioenergy: the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework, or BioenergyKDF. The portal, stewarded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office, is the nation’s premier source of information on biomass potential, providing high-quality data that can guide funding in support of a robust bioeconomy with low-carbon energy sources.

Hanford Site wildlife biologists take great care in protecting migratory birds. The environmental team with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions conducts bird nest surveys prior to any work activities on the ground.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews successfully completed cleanup of pits and trenches used during the Cold War era to burn and bury accumulated waste from the site’s A Area that had contaminated the surrounding soil and groundwater.

Berkeley Lab’s newest building will be the hub of the laboratory’s campus.

Researchers work in the mountains and at the seashore to study how warmer temperatures impact the ability of deep subsoils to store carbon.

DOE announced funding for three additional projects focusing on various materials and manufacturing technologies for offshore wind.