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The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for qualifications related to the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative for utility-scale energy projects within the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site. Today’s announcement reinforces the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to leveraging federal properties to increase the deployment of clean power through the buildout of utility-scale clean energy projects.

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.

Hanford workers recently used a robotic arm to help remove an old 34-foot pump from a large underground tank, called AP-102, that stores radiological and chemical waste.

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR is awarding $45,000 in grants for science, technology, engineering and math projects benefiting 29 schools across the region.

Efforts to retain and recruit skilled construction trade workers took a major step forward with the signing of a project labor agreement between Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor UCOR and North America’s Building Trades Unions.

Women in science, technology, engineering, art and math fields bring a broad range of talents, skills and perspectives to EM cleanup projects across the DOE complex.

Upgrades are under way to prepare the 222-S Laboratory for the next evolution in the Hanford Site cleanup mission, treating tank waste under the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program.

EM has shipped legacy cleanup equipment to an offsite disposal facility after storing some of it at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 2006.