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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews have resumed waste processing operations at a radioactive liquid waste treatment facility at the Idaho National Laboratory Site following the completion of two maintenance campaigns.

The U.S. Department of Energy and an association that helps worksites advance safety and health goals recently presented 21 awards to contractors across the cleanup complex for achievements in safety, health, innovation and outreach.

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.

The Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently resumed preparation of certain legacy transuranic waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Crews at Oak Ridge recently achieved a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management 2024 priority by initiating demolition on a facility in the Manhattan Project-era Alpha-2 complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Crews are reducing risk at the Reduction Oxidation Plant, one of five former plutonium production facilities at the Hanford Site.

The Savannah River Site has welcomed six high school students from the area to participate in the inaugural Youth Apprenticeship program.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists engineered a process for making β-ketoadipic acid from lignin for $2 per kilogram, approaching cost-competitiveness with petroleum-based chemicals used for making nylon today. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, researchers are a step closer to addressing one possible answer to the persistent question of lignin.

The wind energy workforce is made up of a wide range of people and skills. Learn about the career journey of PNNL lab program manager Alicia Mahon.

University of Iowa Professor Jane Nachtman has received a $460,000 grant from the Fermi Research Alliance.