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WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is the nation’s first and only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to successfully vitrify high-level waste (HLW) — liquid waste converted into a glass substance.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The skyline at the Hanford Site’s 200 West Area looks noticeably different as demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant progresses.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – EM Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto met with Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) project engineers this month at the Idaho Site to discuss progress on the facility and review plans for the next work phase.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Early career professionals from EM sites gathered this fall at the Hanford Site for a technical information exchange where they shared lessons learned from throughout the DOE complex.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The caustic scrubber for the EM Office of River Protection’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s (WTP) Low-Activity Waste (LAW) facility has been installed, paving the way for completion of the facility’s construction i...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – DOE and the National Park Service (NPS) have made considerable progress in their inaugural year managing the national park commemorating the Manhattan Project.

EM's demolition of above-ground portions of Building G2 at the Separations Process Research Unit was completed on Nov. 18, a milestone in the ongoing cleanup at the former research site.

Scientists are developing computers that will be 50x faster than today’s by 2020, which will enable the first complete simulations of plasma.