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Success StorySeptember 22, 2021SMR simulation laboratory puts researchers and operators behind the computer screens of NuScale’s virtual control room.Office of Nuclear Energy
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September 21, 2021New concept would deliver continuous electricity while reducing cost and risk.Fusion Energy Sciences
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September 21, 2021The Hanford Site is closing in on treating 28 billion total gallons of groundwater to remove contamination since treatment began in the mid-1990s, significantly reducing risk to the Columbia River.Office of Environmental Management
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September 21, 2021One of two major buildings for a modern air supply system designed to improve air quality for workers in the underground at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is quickly going vertical.Office of Environmental Management
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September 21, 2021A material resembling small glass beads will serve as a critical ingredient to heating up the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) set for later this year.Office of Environmental Management
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September 21, 2021EM has demonstrated the capability to expand double-stacking high-level waste canisters at the Savannah River Site (SRS), an approach that saves the cleanup program more than $100 million.Office of Environmental Management
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September 21, 2021The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is altering a former storage facility for use in processing waste during the demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.Office of Environmental Management
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Press ReleasesSeptember 21, 2021U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi held their first official bilateral meeting at the IAEA 65th General Conference in Vienna, Austria.Energy.gov
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BulletinSeptember 14, 2021Microscopic features of neptunium dioxide control how contaminants dissolve in underground disposal of spent nuclear fuel.Basic Energy Sciences
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September 14, 2021The EM Nevada Program and its environmental program services contractor, Navarro Research and Engineering, have initiated characterization and hazard reduction activities to prepare for upcoming demolition and closure work.Office of Environmental Management