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EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is installing a new wastewater filter system at the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) to increase waste processing throughput & improve efficiency.

EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) sold 52 no-longer-needed special purpose railroad cars to an environmental cleanup company, a transaction that benefitted the U.S Treasury and enabled the site to avoid years of maintenance costs.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy (FE) Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, will participate as a panelist in a segment of the UK Science Museum Group Climate Talk Series.

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) began radioactive operations.

EM workers have started demolition on the final five DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC).

EM crews recently began demolishing the last facility standing in the former Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) at Oak Ridge.

A review EM recently conducted with oversight by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho found that cleanup decisions and actions at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continue to protect people and the environment.

Workers continue to make progress on construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste.

EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project and the National Park Service continue to find ways to help each other in a growing partnership that has improved local revegetation efforts.