Nuclear News & Updates

EM workers have placed the first drum inside a new facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to support the interim storage, characterization, and shipment of plutonium for permanent disposal.

The amount of salt mined so far in Panel 8 at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is a lot, comparable in weight to more than 46,000 Ford F-150s, about 16,000 African bush elephants, nearly 510 Boeing 747s, and two Titanic's.

With EM’s mission completed in major sections of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building, workers have emptied those areas to prepare them for closure under federal and state regulations.

EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project surpassed its own record, once again, recently completing its largest weekly shipment to date by transporting 21,092 tons of uranium mill tailings to the Crescent Junction disposal cell.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) will resume using a rail line to ship waste offsite starting this month.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently removed a septic system and well associated with a former one-room schoolhouse demolished in 2007.

EM contractor employees at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are preparing for an upcoming campaign to dissolve stainless-steel-clad spent nuclear fuel by installing a new dissolver and an additional double-sized tank for dissolved material storage.

EM has reduced the amount of time to qualify a salt waste batch at the Savannah River Site (SRS), enabling a steady stream of the material to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).