Safety News

It’s been said that during an emergency, you always fall back on your training.

The skyline of the West Valley Demonstration Project is forever changed after EM crews recently removed the remaining portion of the Main Plant Process Building’s iconic ventilation stack.

EM’s Paducah Site recently completed construction of a 3,500-square-foot facility to house its new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and provide continuity for emergency management.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently wrapped up initial worker training sessions on sustaining a nuclear safety culture, as the pace of Hanford Site operations picks up.

The EM program at Savannah River Site (SRS) has conducted its second-ever active shooter training exercise, which involved more than 300 employees.

Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites.

Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership Technical Services Summer Intern Catherine Creekmore, center, applies what she is learning in her internship to characterize materials found in process gas equipment in the C-333 Process Building with Paducah Site workers.

EM and a contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished the cleanup of a discharge canal, a project that successfully completes environmental remediation of the Lower Three Runs stream system.

EM recently moved a significant step toward closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building, which could comfortably house a modern U.S. aircraft carrier.

Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) staff at the Hanford Site recently conducted a drill simulating the response to an abnormality in the plant’s power system.