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With hopes for rain during monsoon season amid exceptional drought conditions, the EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently activated samplers at 183 monitoring sites that collect surface water.

Local contractor Two Rivers Terminal recently made its first delivery of materials that will be used to immobilize Hanford Site underground tank waste in glass for disposal to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).

Workers at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recently reached a key milestone six weeks early by completing the foundation for a building critical to the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System, which will be the largest containment fan system.

EM crews at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have removed highly radioactive components from a reactor pool in a facility slated for demolition.

EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently began retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from another massive underground storage tank at the Hanford Site.

EM has installed an improved fire suppression system on a one-of-a-kind Savannah River Site (SRS) vehicle that moves high-level waste canisters.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) hosted the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program Technical Forum marking the end of the summer 2021 session.

EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company has awarded two construction subcontracts worth about $9.5 million to Richland-based DGR Grant Construction Inc. to progress critical risk-reduction work along the Columbia River.