Leadership News

EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White participated in the U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus presentation of DOE’s Cleanup to Clean Energy Program following last week’s 2023 National Cleanup Workshop.

EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jeff Avery met with United Steelworkers (USW) members at their Fall 2023 Atomic Energy Workers Council Meeting in Arlington, Virginia.

U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk and EM Senior Advisor William "Ike" White gave remarks today at the start of the 2023 National Cleanup Workshop, which saw a record turnout of attendees.

Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and others with an EM delegation traveled to Japan to attend the 7th International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) this week to engage with experts from Japan and other c

EM co-hosted a workforce development summit on Friday with the Energy Communities Alliance and Energy Facility Contractors Group that drew a diverse group of leaders from across the region.

EM’s Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) and contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) last week hosted the 2023 DOE Safety Culture Improvement Panel (SCIP) Annual Meeting and Safety Culture Workshop.

The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR accomplished an EM priority four months ahead of schedule when they broke ground on the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) last week.

DOE on Friday kicked off its “Cleanup to Clean Energy” initiative, an innovative effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands — portions of which were previously used in the nation’s nuclear weapons program — into the sites of clean-energy generation.

Amid renewed interest in the atomic history of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), EM leadership had the opportunity to discuss and highlight the significant progress underway in the legacy cleanup mission at LANL during a visit last week.