EM News

EM has selected Reinhard Knerr, manager of the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO), to serve as deputy manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Kentucky, effective Jan. 29.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) worked together recently at the Hanford Site to dig up five spent fuel containers from former plutonium production.

Much of the nation experienced an extreme cold snap over the recent holidays, and Tennessee was no exception with temperatures dipping to nearly zero degrees in Oak Ridge.

Mark your calendars for the ninth-annual National Cleanup Workshop set for Sept. 11-13 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.

Crews recently performed a second run using water to test for receiving sodium hydroxide at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) on the Hanford Site.

EM awarded the security services contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, to the Centerra Group of Herndon, Virginia, a single-member limited liability company and the current incumbent contractor.

EM achieved the majority of its priorities for calendar year (CY) 2022, completing challenging work that demonstrates visible and effectual progress as the program focuses on some of its most difficult remaining challenges.

EM received a fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget of $8.3 billion, a 5% increase over the amount the cleanup program received for FY22.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has laid out its course for cleanup in 2023, setting the stage for a busy year of projects including demolitions, construction and addressing inventories of nuclear waste stored at the site.

EM has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to preserve Braunton’s milk-vetch, an endangered short-lived perennial plant in the pea family, at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site.