Nuclear News & Updates

The Hanford Site is on the verge of initial radioactive and chemical waste treatment.

EM achieved unprecedented progress on the mega-sized Saltstone Disposal Units (SDU) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in the past year.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a subcontract worth about $3.3 million to Kennewick, Washington-based Apollo Mechanical to advance important risk-reduction work.

TerraPower's decision to build its advanced reactor in Wyoming expected to create jobs and clean energy opportunities for the state.

A fundamental mission of the IAEA is to work with Member States to use peaceful nuclear technology to improve and transform lives globally. A key resource in this mission is the IAEA’s eight nuclear applications laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria.

EM officials speaking at the 2021 RadWaste Summit last week detailed progress at the Savannah River, Idaho, and Hanford sites in the treatment of tank waste, the most significant challenge facing the environmental cleanup program.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) completed the ambitious goals laid out for the site in EM’s 2021 priorities.

Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant has successfully completed a loss-of-offsite-power commissioning test, a critical step toward the heatup of melters and vitrification, or immobilization within glass.

EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) immobilized more decontaminated salt solution (DSS) in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 than in the previous five years combined.

The Hanford Site’s critical Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) is nearly ready to once again treat wastewater generated by numerous remediation activities.