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DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) will avoid millions of dollars in costs and accelerate cleanup thanks to a project that broke ground last week at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

EM’s ORP and its tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently installed a pump inside a large underground waste storage tank that is integral to a program that will treat the Hanford Site’s tank waste.

Deactivation workers at EM’s Paducah Site recently completed major modifications to the fire sprinkler system in one of the former gaseous diffusion plant’s four massive uranium-enrichment process buildings.

Workers will soon remove solar-power “plugs” from 19 soil remediation sites at the Savannah River Site (SRS), creating an annual cost savings of $90,000 as the successful soil and groundwater cleanup project comes to an end.

EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are setting the stage to accelerate the removal and disposal of plutonium from South Carolina.

EM crews have completed demolition on a contaminated 1960s-era building at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), opening land that DOE can reuse for future missions.

An EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor team has finished creating almost 5,500 step-by-step procedures required for operation of Waste Treatment and WTP systems and facilities needed for Hanford’s DFLAW approach to tank waste treatment.