Nuclear News & Updates

About 2,000 gallons of radioactive and chemical tank waste is one step closer to disposal as part of a treatment technology demonstration at the Hanford Site.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management received concurrence this month from the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the Savannah River Site has successfully removed waste from Tank 9 and may now proceed to the next step in the closure process for that tank.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently “put the lid” on a project to permanently seal 15 stainless steel containers of spent nuclear fuel, reducing risk at the Hanford Site.

Environmental cleanup and transformation are happening across the Oak Ridge Reservation, and leadership with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR are focused on ways to maintain that momentum.

Students from the University of Utah’s American Nuclear Society Student Section recently toured the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project sites.

High-temperature gas reactors can efficiently produce heat for electricity and industrial applications.

Ugur Mertyurek, a nuclear scientist from ORNL, participated in Energy I-Corps Cohort 17 funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and used the program to pivot the main value proposition of his mutual information analytics technology.