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There’s something big going down at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

Since the start of 2022, EM crews at Oak Ridge have finished deactivating the former Criticality Experiment Laboratory and the mercury contaminated Column Exchange (COLEX) equipment at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12).

The Richland Operations Office (RL) and cleanup contractor CPCCo are off to a strong start on one of EM’s key construction priorities for 2022, with workers preparing to safely enclose, or “cocoon,” the seventh of nine former reactors on the Hanford Site.

In a project that saves taxpayer money, cleanup crews refurbished a former storage facility for waste disposal operations during the teardown of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).

Preparing for 24/7 operations to treat waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks isn’t a one-organization job. EM established the Technical Integration Team to progress the site-wide mission to treat waste under the DFLAW Program.

EM recently released contract fee determination scorecards for three contractors that support the cleanup program at the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office and EM-LA Field Office based on their performance during the evaluation period of fiscal 2021.