Idaho News

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management will employ an innovative technology to scan 6,000 legacy waste drums at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

A group of 16 summer interns from colleges and universities throughout the United States this year joined the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, supporting communications, accounting, engineering, waste management and other organizations.

For nearly 20 years, cleanup crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site have benefited from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Assurance System (CAS).

The cleanup contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently met its fiscal year 2024 milestone of transferring 10 spent nuclear fuel baskets from first-generation vaults to second-generation storage vaults ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.

An employee of the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, recently received recognition for her efforts to enhance safety last year.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews have demolished one of the biggest buildings at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, and two more structures are set to come down before the year’s end.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews recently demolished another steel-framed, fabric-covered building at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex’s Subsurface Disposal Area at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. Just three buildings remain on the 97-acre Cold War-era landfill, following removal of this former waste storage building.

Members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee recently toured the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews are working to safely demolish the largest remaining structure used in a project to retrieve targeted buried waste at a Cold War-era landfill at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) bilateral agreement and ongoing collaboration with Canada's Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), EM headquarters facilitated an AECL delegation visit