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The EM Nevada Program and its environmental program services contractor, Navarro Research and Engineering, have initiated characterization and hazard reduction activities to prepare for upcoming demolition and closure work.

Scientists in the EM program are using a 62-acre plantation of pine trees and other natural resources to greatly limit radioactively contaminated groundwater from reaching waterways on the Savannah River Site (SRS).

With help from Hanford Site employees, a large area of the site with cultural significance to tribal nations in the Northwest is making a comeback after a wildfire caused by lightning in June 2020

Since the inception of the EM program in 1989, the Paducah Site has made notable achievements in groundwater cleanup, waste removal, and other work advancing its environmental cleanup mission following more than 60 years of uranium enrichment operations.

A third tank at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has been converted into a blend tank to support feeding waste to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).

EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently conducted load testing on a crane that will play a crucial role in assembling spare melters critical to tank waste treatment at the Hanford Site.

A group of students from Florida International University (FIU) will have quite a story to tell when asked to share what they did this summer.