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April 9, 2024Jud Lilly of the EM Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) received the 2023 Federal Project Director of the Year Award at DOE’s Project Management Workshop in Washington, D.C., last week.Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office
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BulletinApril 8, 2024The floating block method provides the tools to compute how quantum states overlap and how to build fast and accurate emulators of those systems.Nuclear Physics
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Press ReleasesApril 8, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $19.1 million to support nuclear energy research and development, university nuclear infrastructure, and undergraduate and graduate education.Office of Nuclear Energy
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April 5, 2024A new experimental measure of Helium-4’s transition from its ground energy state to an excited state closes an apparent gap with theoretical predictions.Nuclear Physics
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April 3, 2024New center to serve Poland and the broader Central European region as a training hub for nuclear reactor deploymentOffice of Nuclear Energy
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April 2, 2024EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) reached a major milestone last week — 25 years of operations at the nation’s only deep, underground geological repository for disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste.Office of Environmental Management
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April 2, 2024EM’s Portsmouth Site has finished excavating approximately seven acres for its On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF) to prepare for debris from the demolition of X-333, a former uranium enrichment process building measuring more than 50 acres of floor area.Office of Environmental Management
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April 2, 2024Recent completion of a project at the Hanford Site marked a significant accomplishment, as crews from EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) loaded and shipped 15 drums of sodium waste from the site’s former research reactors for offsite treatment.Office of Environmental Management
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April 2, 2024Innovation fueled the creation of a new tool at EM's Savannah River Site (SRS) that helps ensure equipment being lowered into an underground liquid waste tank does not encounter any interferences.Office of Environmental Management
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April 2, 2024The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR recently completed an extensive piping replacement project to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations (LGWO) system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Office of Environmental Management