EM News

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) finished fiscal year 2022 (FY22) by exceeding EM’s goals for shipping radioactive waste offsite to permanent disposal facilities.

EM has released a web-based mapping tool called TRAC, or Tracking Restoration And Closure, that transforms data and other technical material about groundwater plumes at EM sites into relevant, easy-to-understand information.

EM led DOE’s Feds Feed Families (FFF) summer campaign this year by collecting and donating nearly 253,500 pounds of items for food banks and pantries to help people facing food insecurity across the U.S.

Decontamination and demolition (D&D) crews at EM’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site have begun demolishing Cold War-era buildings that supported the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program beginning in the 1950s.

EM crews at Oak Ridge have cleared another excess, contaminated facility, opening land for reuse at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Local leaders from Paducah, Kentucky recently visited Washington, D.C. to meet with EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and other senior DOE officials to discuss the post-cleanup future for the Paducah Site.

Consider the following heart-pounding scenario hundreds of employees responded to as part of the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) recent annual emergency exercise.

Crews at EM's Portsmouth Site recently finished excavating the first of five legacy landfills whose soil will be used to support the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently held a formal ceremony for the Hanford Fire Department.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR approximately $27.5 million for its performance from Nov. 1, 2021 through May 22, 2022, amounting to 85% of the available fee for the evaluation period.