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PHOENIX – EM’s recent efforts to become a more field-centric organization are already reaping rewards, senior EM officials said here last week during a panel discussion at the 2017 Waste Management Symposium.

AIKEN, S.C. – On March 2, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State, and DOE cleanup project management and staff from the DOE sites in EPA Region 4 — Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Savannah River Site — met at the Savannah River Site (SRS) at ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – The last stop of plutonium processing on the Hanford Site is now one significant step closer to demolition. EM’s Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) recently isolated the main process...

PHOENIX – Senior federal and contractor officials from EM’s Office of River Protection at Hanford discussed the progress being made on the direct-feed low activity waste (DFLAW) approach for treating Hanford’s tank waste during a panel discussion...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – EM and its cleanup contractor at Oak Ridge are taking steps now to remove risks and help prepare excess facilities for eventual demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – On March 2, workers at DOE’s Idaho site celebrated the completion of transuranic waste retrieval activities at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s Transuranic Storage Area-Retrieval Enclosure (TSA-RE).

AIKEN, S.C. – The Savannah River National Laboratory’s more than 1,000 employees – administrators, engineers, operators and scientists — completed 2016 injury-free. SRNL is one of only two National Laboratories to achieve an annual Total Record...

GERMANTOWN, Md. – The Spent Nuclear Fuel Working Group (SNFWG) held its fifth meeting on January 24 and 25.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – More than 300 engineer wannabes discover a fun way to understand basic engineering principles at the Museum of Idaho-Fluor Idaho Engineering Day on Saturday, Feb. 25.