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February 8, 2022Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions recently teamed to remove three 50-foot-tall exhaust stacks near the Columbia River, further transforming the Hanford Site.Office of Environmental Management
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February 7, 2022A recent measurement of the neutron-rich “skin” around lead nuclei reveals new details of neutron behavior and the dynamics of neutron starsNuclear Physics
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Success StoryFebruary 7, 2022INL built a full-scale, electrically heated prototype to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s new MARVEL microreactor project.Office of Nuclear Energy
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Press ReleasesFebruary 3, 2022In the midst of the United States’ race to build the atomic bomb during World War II, an African American-owned business helped develop reactor fuel for the Manhattan Project.Office of Legacy Management
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Press ReleasesFebruary 3, 2022The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded North Wind Portage, Inc. (NWP), of Idaho Falls, Idaho, the Moab Remedial Action Contract (Moab RAC) for completion of EM’s environmental remediation in Moab, Utah.Office of Environmental Management
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Success StoryFebruary 3, 2022First batch of TRIGA fuel is expected to be delivered to the U.S. by 2023.Office of Nuclear Energy
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February 2, 2022The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced workers have begun the first large-scale treatment of radioactive and chemical waste from large underground tanks at the Hanford Site.Office of Environmental Management
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February 2, 2022LM working through COVID-19 challenges while engaging international counterparts in remediation missions.Office of Legacy Management
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February 1, 2022Trucks carrying the last of demolition waste safely left the Energy Technology Engineering Center northwest of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, marking another milestone in EM’s cleanup following the teardown of the final DOE-owned buildings there in October.Office of Environmental Management
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February 1, 2022For more than 20 years, the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site has sent shipments of defense transuranic (TRU) waste for disposal to EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.Office of Environmental Management