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EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) are teaming up again to continue removing contaminated soil beneath the 324 Building.

In recognition of outstanding efforts to encourage more professionals to obtain the skills needed to enter and advance in the nuclear packaging industry, EM’s Pkg Certification Prgm has been awarded the 2022 W. Edwards Deming Outstanding Training Award.

Mayors & other government officials from the US were among the 70 attendees from over 25 countries who gathered in Vienna recently for the 5 day Technical Meeting for Municipalities with Nuclear Facilities hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Engineers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are testing and programming robots that will help ensure the thousands of steel containers are safe for transport to the nearby Integrated Disposal Facility.

U.S. nuclear power plants are being leveraged to help lower the cost and scale-up the production of clean hydrogen.

EM’s Moab UMTRA Project recently accomplished an EM 2022 priority by successfully relocating another million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 13 million tons permanently disposed.

Another year, another 2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater treated. It’s a repeat of last-year’s statistics, but a new chapter that illustrates continuous, consistent cleanup progress at the Hanford Site year after year.

EM recently completed the first-ever demolition of a reactor in the central campus area at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).