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Environmental cleanup and transformation are happening across the Oak Ridge Reservation, and leadership with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR are focused on ways to maintain that momentum.

Students from the University of Utah’s American Nuclear Society Student Section recently toured the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project sites.

High-temperature gas reactors can efficiently produce heat for electricity and industrial applications.

Ugur Mertyurek, a nuclear scientist from ORNL, participated in Energy I-Corps Cohort 17 funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and used the program to pivot the main value proposition of his mutual information analytics technology.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office has achieved another year of fulfilling its legacy cleanup commitments with the New Mexico Environment Department at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project has achieved another 1-million-ton cleanup milestone, checking off a priority of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management for the year.

Spark Squad Nuclear comic book explores the largest U.S. clean energy source — nuclear power.