Nuclear News & Updates

With its excavation complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is closer to completion and revealing new insights into neutrinos.

The two U.S. Department of Energy offices responsible for performing the Hanford Site’s environmental cleanup work have been combined under a new name, the Hanford Field Office, beginning today.

An agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy, state officials and local tribal governments has been extended for 10 years, allowing cleanup to continue at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride to more stable compounds recently returned to full operations at both the Portsmouth and Paducah sites’ first-of-a-kind facilities.

Crews at the Hanford Site recently welcomed the return of specialized equipment sent offsite for refurbishment nearly a year ago.

Cleanup crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are using a soft-sided enclosure — basically a building within a building — to open containers to treat and repackage transuranic waste inside of them, enabling the material to be compliantly shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for permanent disposal.

Cleanup crews are making steady progress on deactivation projects across Oak Ridge National Laboratory to prepare for the next wave of demolitions as they continue transforming the site.

In another major milestone, the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at Savannah River Site recently started dissolving nuclear material from a Japanese research reactor, leading to its safe disposal.

For the first time in 70 years, crews at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Paducah Site recently opened storage tanks used in the uranium enrichment process.