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July 13, 2021Construction is almost complete on a dry-storage area for 1,936 radioactive cesium and strontium capsules currently housed in an underwater basin at the nearby Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) at the Hanford Site.Office of Environmental Management
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July 12, 2021Senior research scientist Zeke Unterberg studies ways to optimize the operation and materials for future nuclear fusion reactors.Office of Science
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July 8, 2021Scientists explore the origin of Aluminum-26 in stars with a nuclear reaction that exploits the fact that neutrons and protons are stunningly similar.Nuclear Physics
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July 8, 2021Advanced construction technologies that could reduce the construction costs of building new reactors by more than 10% and significantly lower the scheduling risks associated with them.Office of Nuclear Energy
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July 7, 2021DOE to support three construction technologies that together can reduce the cost of new nuclear builds by more than 10 percent.Office of Nuclear Energy
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July 6, 2021CD-1 milestone marks start of project execution phase for next-generation nuclear physics facility that will probe the smallest building blocks of visible matter.Office of Science
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July 6, 2021EM has doubled the number of work shifts for employees in glovebox operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to advance DOE’s mission of removing plutonium from South Carolina.Office of Environmental Management
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July 6, 2021EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently marked a milestone after receiving its 100th waste shipment from Oak Ridge, Tennessee since shipments resumed in August 2017, following a fire and radiological events in the WIPP underground in 2014.Office of Environmental Management
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July 6, 2021EM crews were recently at work upgrading the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory when they encountered an unexpected challenge: they couldn’t obtain critical vendor services and parts needed for the project.Office of Environmental Management
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July 6, 2021Washington River Protection Solutions, the EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site, has awarded three subcontracts worth nearly $19 million to a local company for construction projects to support tank waste projects.Office of Environmental Management