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Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are demolishing a former chemical storage area near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the Hanford Site’s five former plutonium production facilities.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed the largest of nine tanks from a liquid waste cell as part of the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project safely demolished a former security guardhouse built in 1965, one of the first facilities constructed at the former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.

Two EM sites are among the recipients of grants totaling more than $104 million for 31 projects across the country to support energy conservation measures, saving taxpayers $29 million in the first year of operations and drastically reducing the federal carbon footprint.

EM’s Paducah Site recently celebrated the startup of a first-of-a-kind scanning facility to ensure equipment removal from massive process buildings are properly prepared for safe and compliant disposal.

EM’s Paducah Site recently celebrated the startup of a first-of-a-kind scanning facility to ensure equipment removal from massive process buildings are properly prepared for safe and compliant disposal.

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently completed construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF), a key component of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program to treat the Hanford Site’s tank waste.