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Managers of the EM sites at Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky, provided an update at the 2022 Waste Management Symposia last week on cleanup progress at the two locations.

The U.S. government has been collaborating with Japan to further our understanding about the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident progressions to apply that knowledge to enhance nuclear safety.

DOE achieved most of its environmental cleanup priorities in 2021 and now is poised to take it “to the next level,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at the 2022 Waste Management Symposia on Monday.

A longstanding relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom on environmental cleanup was commemorated during the 2022 Waste Management Symposia.

EM crews have performed numerous corrective maintenance projects over the past two years to ensure nuclear facilities on the Oak Ridge Reservation continue operating safely and effectively.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently began operating a new exhauster ventilation system installed in the SY Tank Farm at the Hanford Site.

EM crews replaced a large culvert along a road at the West Valley Demonstration Project where heavy equipment will transport waste containers during the teardown of the Main Plant Process Building.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) today released its Strategic Vision 2022-2032, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.