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Elected officials and EM leaders last week commended the team that completed the exhumation of targeted waste from 5.69 acres of a Cold War weapons landfill at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The Accelerated Retrieval Project I (ARP I), an effort to identify and exhume specific buried waste from a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, began in January 2005.

DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho signed a record of decision to clean up a pit within a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site using a chemical extraction process, which later proved unsuccessful.

DOE EM and State of Idaho officials gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to mark the completion of a high-priority cleanup project that helps protect the Snake River Plain Aquifer and maintains a commitment with the state of Idaho.

Learn more about Julie Villamil, one of the students conducting STEM research through FECM's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU-OMI) Program.

The first batch of approximately 200,000 gallons of tank waste has been treated by the Hanford Site’s Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System and is staged in a double-shell tank for immobilization in glass.

Acting Assistant Secretary Jennifer Wilcox participated in various panels and meetings at CERAWeek 2022, alongside other DOE experts, to discuss the role FECM has in helping the nation achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

One of the nation’s most complex environmental management challenges is detecting, monitoring and remediating contaminated groundwater.