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Press ReleasesJune 1, 2017United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas Zacharia as new Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Energy.gov
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May 31, 2017OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Processing and shipping the inventory of transuranic waste offsite is one of the EM program’s most important near-term commi...Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017NISKAYUNA, N.Y. – Peter Keenan is part of a team that helps ensure the safety of workers demolishing contaminated facilities at EM’s Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) nuclear facility.Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) has given Bechtel National (BNI), the contractor for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), a positive assessment for its performance in 2016, according to a recently rele...Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017AIKEN, S.C. – EM has begun the critical task of connecting the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities earlier than planned, taking advantage of a system-wide outage prompted by the need to repla...Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers are preparing for a challenging phase of the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) demolition: continuing th...Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017RICHLAND, Wash.– In a video recorded May 20, Hanford Site workers place a protective cover over Tunnel 1 at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility (PUREX), where a portion of the tunnel roof was discovered collapsed MayOffice of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C. – Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange will participate in a panel discussion on June 7 for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus ...Office of Environmental Management
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May 31, 2017WASHINGTON, D.C. – Douglas Tonkay, director of the EM Office of Waste Disposal, has been elected a vice president of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.Office of Environmental Management
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BulletinMay 31, 2017Keeping ion beams cool keeps the particles tightly packed, so more ions collide to generate data. RHIC physicists will use relatively coolNuclear Physics