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Representatives of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) and EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) were on hand last week to congratulate Dominic Montaño and Milnor Branch.

EM crews have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex scheduled for demolition next year.

Holly Flynn, a researcher at EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), will receive $2.5 million over five years to fund research associated with fusion energy after being selected as a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awardee.

At the Sellafield site on the coast of Cumbria, England, remotely operated submersible vehicles perform inspection and manipulation tasks in ponds where spent fuel is stored.

Workers on the Hanford Site are preparing to cut into the dome of an underground waste-storage tank later this summer to get ready for future waste retrieval operations.

The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

EM has marked a major achievement in the effort to expand interim storage of canisters of vitrified high-level waste at the Savannah River Site (SRS) while saving taxpayer dollars.