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The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractors recorded another successful year by completing all of their 2024 priorities and reaching an ambitious milestone decades in the making.

The Portsmouth Site is well known for encouraging scientific learning and exploring STEM opportunities with students of all ages in the community year-round.

Workers with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently completed comprehensive testing of new components at the Hanford Site’s Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility.

Calloway County High School has been named the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl T-Shirt Design Contest.

Crews at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility recently completed the final test of key safety systems, demonstrating that the facility’s emissions treatment system can remain functional, even during an emergency loss of power.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently conducted a multi-agency emergency response exercise involving a thundersnow scenario at its Crescent Junction disposal cell site.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth Paducah Project Office recently hosted fundraisers and food drives to help stock local food pantries through Feds Feed Families, an annual campaign led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Hanford Site contractors are busy preparing for a second Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program campaign after the site’s 222-S Laboratory evaluated waste feed for the first DFLAW campaign, ensuring the waste is suitable to be treated for vitrification.

New and returning members of the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) recently toured several Hanford Site facilities, including a full-size mock-up of a single-shell waste-storage tank at the site’s Cold Test Facility.

Idaho Cleanup Project crews have achieved a significant priority set by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management by treating 100,000 cumulative gallons of radioactive sodium-bearing tank waste at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit this year.