Nuclear News & Updates

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The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) recently achieved full operation of an interim measure to contain and control migration of a contaminant plume in the groundwater.

Ethan Hoopes changed the direction of his life following a friend’s recommendation during an Idaho hunting trip in 2018.

EM is set to further alter the SRS skyline over the next five months with the demolition of five buildings in an area of the site where Cold War workers once created heavy water for reactors and produced power & steam in a five-story coal fired powerhouse

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CPCCo is preparing to implement key components of a system that will isolate and stabilize about 15,000 pounds of radioactive debris in the K West Reactor spent fuel storage basin on the Hanford Site.

EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed a significant waste retrieval project, further advancing EM’s mission of safe cleanup of legacy liquid waste.

A second slate of 12 laboratory technicians recently started work at the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site.