EM News

DOE recently honored two EM employees with major awards for their superior performance in 2022.

An EM site manager recently joined U.S. Forest Service personnel to observe the monitoring process for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

EM workers recently completed a big task involving a small item by safely removing a highly radiated segment of wire roughly the size of a straightened-out paper clip from a cleanup project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A total of 180 students hailing from 59 colleges and 15 states recently earned spots in an a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor’s paid summer internship program at the Savannah River Site.

Byron Smith joined the EM Nevada Program in spring 2022 to work as a real-time radiography technician. The former X-ray technician started the job with more than a decade of experience in radiology.

Bechtel National Inc. has selected Senior Vice President Brian Hartman as the new project director for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site.

EM has appointed six new members to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board (CAB)

The Hanford Site and EM Richland Operations Office contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) teamed up with the Benton County Sheriff's Office earlier this year to enhance traffic safety on the site.

A new $30 million investment by EM will fund research and technology development led by DOE’s national laboratories aimed at better addressing tank waste at the Hanford Site.

DOE is committed to improving the protection of tribal sacred sites — and access to those sites by tribes — through enhanced interdepartmental coordination, collaboration and action.