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During the calendar year of 2023, the team at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant had its best shipment performance in 10 years, continuing the cleanup of sites in New Mexico and across the country.

Just before the new year, there was quite the ribbon-cutting at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). At the event, the spinning teeth of a multi-ton mechanical mining machine clawed through the ceremonial ribbon and began cutting a new disposal panel out of a 250-million-year-old layer of salt beneath the New Mexico desert.

EM crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continue to transfer spent nuclear fuel baskets to second-generation storage vaults, providing safe long-term storage and reducing risk of corrosion.

National weather agencies recently recognized workers at EM's Portsmouth Site for their contributions to climate science.

EM’s Richland Operations Office awarded mission support contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions approximately $15.1 million in fee for work performed in fiscal year 2023.

Southwestern celebrated its 80th year in hydropower with gatherings of employees, customers, and stakeholders at open house events held at offices in Springfield, Missouri, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Gore, Oklahoma.

Snowpack in mountains acts as water storage for downstream communities. They could face low-to-no snow winters under certain emissions scenarios.

At the end of last year, EM leaders William “Ike” White and Jeff Avery traveled West to visit nuclear legacy sites.

Happy New Year! In 2021 and 2022 Congress passed and President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Chips & Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – three of the most consequential bills ever passed to...

2023 Year in Review Accomplishments Report