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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews recently demolished another steel-framed, fabric-covered building at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex’s Subsurface Disposal Area at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. Just three buildings remain on the 97-acre Cold War-era landfill, following removal of this former waste storage building.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR hosted more than 50 guests on a guided tour to observe progress on the construction of the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF).

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recertified the West Valley Demonstration Project’s Environmental Management System, a management practice that allows organizations to conduct work in a systematic manner to minimize impacts of operations on the environment.

Six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites are among a group of award winners who collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions last year by more than 565,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which equates to taking 121,000 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.

FECM’s priority is reaching the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals of a fully decarbonized power sector by 2035 and net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

This blog highlights the “NETL Albany Town Hall” that took place on July 9, 2024.

Portsmouth Site crews relied on detailed planning, collaboration and teamwork to successfully complete the characterization activities in the X-333 Process Building, which is slated for demolition early next year.

A new automated pumping system is up and running at the Former Sodium Disposal Facility on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Energy Technology Engineering Center site at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Savannah River Site recently entered the final testing stage of a multi-year project to introduce automation to its mission to downblend surplus plutonium for permanent disposal and remove it from South Carolina, benefiting personnel while saving taxpayer dollars.