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Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Dr. Wilcox gave a keynote address at the NCC Spring Annual Meeting

It’s Earth Month every month on the Hanford Site, where workers routinely ship tens of thousands of pounds of universal waste and recycling to the site’s Centralized Consolidation/Recycling Center (CCRC) for processing.

EM's Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently started testing a system integral to treating the Hanford Site’s tank waste.

Crews continue to make progress toward an EM 2021 priority to complete demolition of all DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California.

For the first time, camera-mounted drones recently hovered, dipped, and glided above EM’s remediated waste sites at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to ensure the structural integrity of the protective covers over them.

Roadways, railroads, water and sewage treatment facilities, a bank, a post office, a fire department, and security force — all of this made up EM’s Paducah Site more than 60 years ago.

WVDP workers are preparing to remove ductwork that carried exhaust from past operations at the Main Plant Process Building as part of deactivation preparations for the facility’s future demolition — among EM’s 2021 priorities.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently reduced the cost of treating wastewater, a vital function to EM’s cleanup mission, by consolidating capabilities into a single facility.

RL awarded former cleanup contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) more than $6.3 million, or about 78% of the available fee of more than $8.1 million for the first four months of the fiscal year that began October 1, 2020.