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August 19, 2021Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connectedOffice of Environmental Management
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August 18, 2021By The Numbers fact sheet for Los Alamos Environmental Management May 2021Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office
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August 17, 2021Local 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).Office of Environmental Management
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August 17, 2021Workers 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.Office of Environmental Management
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August 17, 2021Employees of Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), the maintenance and operations contractor for EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project, recently surpassed 1 million working hours without a recordable injury or lost-time accident.Office of Environmental Management
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August 17, 2021EM crews at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have removed highly radioactive components from a reactor pool in a facility slated for demolition.Office of Environmental Management
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Press ReleasesAugust 17, 2021NNSA announced the rollout of U.S. Nuclear Nexus, a tool designed to foster timely connections between NNSA and the U.S. nuclear industry on the global deployment of advanced nuclear technology,National Nuclear Security Administration
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August 17, 2021EM 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.Office of Environmental Management
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August 17, 2021EM has installed an improved fire suppression system on a one-of-a-kind Savannah River Site (SRS) vehicle that moves high-level waste canisters.Office of Environmental Management
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August 16, 2021Research on techniques for studying the chemical properties of superheavy elements might also help recover a strategically important metal.Nuclear Physics