EM News

EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed more than 365 days without a work-related injury that required an employee to miss a day on the job.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Environmental Management (EM) Workforce Management Office is implementing recruitment efforts to fill more than 300 vacancies across the cleanup program.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) joined partners in a growing collaboration at an event last week to celebrate advances in cancer treatment research that have emerged from an unexpected place — old nuclear material.

Bechtel announced today that Valerie McCain, the late project manager at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), was recently named a Top 25 Newsmaker for 2023 by Engineering News-Record magazine.

Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk presented EM two Project Management Awards during a ceremony last week, recognizing exceptional results for complex projects.

Thanks in part to the Hanford Site’s Facebook page, Doug Staudt, a radiological control technician with EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company, was recently reunited with his 1988 high school class ring that went missing nearly 30 years ago.

The cleanup program is seeking interested members of the public to fill vacancies on the Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB).

Students from the greater Allendale, South Carolina, area recently enjoyed the inaugural “All in Allendale” event, which offered fun, food, and music, as well as science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities.

EM is hosting its first Reverse Industry Day (RID) next month, giving the contractor workforce an opportunity to share details on the industry decision-making process and offer perspectives to enhance the cleanup program’s business environment.

Hanford Site workers continue to make headway dissolving solid waste in a large underground storage tank in a campaign to remove and transfer 426,000 gallons of radioactive and chemical waste.