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EM’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.

EM’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.

Recent 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.

Innovation 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.

The Hanford Fire Department is using prescribed burns at the 580-square-mile EM cleanup site to reduce wildfire risks in the late spring and summer.

The 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).

This EM Update issue focuses on EM’s participation in the 2024 Waste Management Symposia, the premier international conference for radioactive waste management and related topics held March 10-14 in Phoenix, Arizona.

The senior advisor at EM’s Idaho National Laboratory Site said there are people who don’t want to fill out applications or sign up for events like the panel session they participated in at the 2024 Waste Management Symposia focusing on EM's Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) and advancing a sustainable, diverse science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pipeline.