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Trucks carrying the last of demolition waste safely left the Energy Technology Engineering Center northwest of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, marking another milestone in EM’s cleanup following the teardown of the final DOE-owned buildings there in October.

EM crews have successfully completed a complex project that protects cultural and ecological resources throughout the Los Alamos National Laboratory site while enabling more thorough monitoring and characterization of a contaminant plume in groundwater.

EM is upgrading a historic reactor at Oak Ridge to keep the facility in a safe mode until its demolition is scheduled.

EM and its liquid-waste contractor at the Savannah River Site have filled two tank farm structures with cementitious grout to complete a significant step toward the operational closure of the first high-activity liquid waste facilities at the SRS site.

Crews in the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site are practicing moving “bubblers” in the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility to build their proficiency during the commissioning phase of the LAW.

Look back on the Office of Electricity’s 2021 accomplishments and achievements.

Offices. Apartments. Schools. Homes. These buildings—and more—are where Americans live, work, play, and learn. Yet every year, buildings contribute roughly 35% of our country’s climate-altering carbon emissions.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have reached an important agreement with South Carolina and federal environmental regulators on the final cleanup of a 25-mile-long stream corridor at the site.

Preparations are well underway to transfer nearly 2,000 highly radioactive capsules from the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) to interim dry storage at the Hanford Site.