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Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor Isotek recently took a different approach to machinery installation and repairs, saving time and money on the highest priority cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

DOE announced it will enter into realty negotiations with Hecate Energy LLC for a solar project capable of delivering up to one gigawatt of clean energy within an 8,000-acre area of DOE-owned land at the Hanford site as part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative.

Leadership from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and cleanup contractor UCOR recently gathered for a meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where continued partnership was one of the key topics of the day.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews recently demolished another steel-framed, fabric-covered building at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex’s Subsurface Disposal Area at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. Just three buildings remain on the 97-acre Cold War-era landfill, following removal of this former waste storage building.

EM is draining the last large concrete basin at the Hanford Site.

Portsmouth Site crews relied on detailed planning, collaboration and teamwork to successfully complete the characterization activities in the X-333 Process Building, which is slated for demolition early next year.

Members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee recently toured the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

A new automated pumping system is up and running at the Former Sodium Disposal Facility on the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Energy Technology Engineering Center site at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Savannah River Site recently entered the final testing stage of a multi-year project to introduce automation to its mission to downblend surplus plutonium for permanent disposal and remove it from South Carolina, benefiting personnel while saving taxpayer dollars.