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WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is the nation’s first and only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to successfully vitrify high-level waste (HLW) — liquid waste converted into a glass substance.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The skyline at the Hanford Site’s 200 West Area looks noticeably different as demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant progresses.

AIKEN, S.C. – EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have achieved millions of dollars in savings through two major cost-cutting efforts.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Just north of the city limits here and within sight of the Columbia River remains one of the last buildings to be demolished in the Hanford Site’s 300 Area.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Early career professionals from EM sites gathered this fall at the Hanford Site for a technical information exchange where they shared lessons learned from throughout the DOE complex.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The caustic scrubber for the EM Office of River Protection’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s (WTP) Low-Activity Waste (LAW) facility has been installed, paving the way for completion of the facility’s construction i...

EM's demolition of above-ground portions of Building G2 at the Separations Process Research Unit was completed on Nov. 18, a milestone in the ongoing cleanup at the former research site.

Solar power is now more affordable in the United States than at any other point in history, and new analysis shows it has the potential to gain popularity in low- and moderate-income communities across the country.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – EM’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center recorded an outstanding year by exceeding all of its goals as workers continued to process and prepare Oak Ridge’s inventory of transuranic waste for offsite disposal.