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Why now, what’s changed? This was the main question from many community members at recent public scoping meetings for the Office of Environmental Management Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

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During his recent visit to Oak Ridge, Energy Secretary Chris Wright observed cleanup projects.

With the successful cleanup underway at the Oak Ridge Reservation serving as a “North Star,” the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is entering into a “unique moment”.

Researchers at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory studied water movement in wetlands and its role in filtering contaminants in the Tims Branch watershed, a riparian wetland on the Savannah River Site.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System facility.

Cleanup progress at the former Portsmouth and Paducah uranium enrichment plants is helping enable new opportunities for local communities to continue advancing U.S. energy and U.S. security goals, Joel Bradburne said.

A local museum recently opened an exhibition on the community’s Cold War-era uranium boom, and the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project took part.