Nuclear News & Updates

The EM Los Alamos Field Office and its cleanup contractor have collected more than 3,100 soil samples and excavated more than 1,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil as they remediate land at the southernmost boundary of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A new animation of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program at the Hanford Site shows the integrated procedure that achieves tank waste treatment. That process is a key component of EM’s strategic cleanup vision.

Crews are nearly finished deactivating the second of three collections of old, mercury-contaminated equipment surrounding the Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.

An employee with a company that supports EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has received the American Nuclear Society’s (ANS) 2021 Landis Public Communication and Education Award.

The mining machines are quiet. The salt haul trucks are still. After seven years, mining of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's (WIPP) Panel 8 is finished.

DOE recognized a former Mississippi State University (MSU) research center director with a career award honoring his work to evaluate and improve high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters used to contain nuclear materials.

Crews are getting ready to deactivate the final hot cell of the former Radioisotope Development Laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in advance of demolishing the structure.