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Over the past 24 years and spanning three liquid waste contractors, EM’s construction team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has achieved 35 million safe hours without injury resulting in a missed day of work.

EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) management and operations contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) is playing an important part in helping southeastern New Mexico students develop a lifelong interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently installed a hydraulic shear system, a major step toward remediating transuranic (TRU) waste contained in large, corrugated metal pipes buried underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1986.

Officials from the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council were on hand for the recent ribbon-cutting of a new workshop for craft workers supporting the tank waste storage and treatment mission at the Hanford Site.

Improving processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste are vital to the Hanford Site cleanup mission.

LPO Director Jigar Shah explains the potential of VPPs to further energy affordability – from participation in demand flexibility programs to the more efficient use of grid infrastructure and the deployment of ever cheaper renewable resources.

Hear firsthand from Mr. Crabtree about joining FECM and please join us in welcoming him to the office.

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dr. Kathryn Huff discusses her priorities for nuclear energy.