Safety News

Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites.

Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership Technical Services Summer Intern Catherine Creekmore, center, applies what she is learning in her internship to characterize materials found in process gas equipment in the C-333 Process Building with Paducah Site workers.

EM and a contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished the cleanup of a discharge canal, a project that successfully completes environmental remediation of the Lower Three Runs stream system.

EM recently moved a significant step toward closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building, which could comfortably house a modern U.S. aircraft carrier.

Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) staff at the Hanford Site recently conducted a drill simulating the response to an abnormality in the plant’s power system.

EM’s revised roadmap for completion of the liquid waste program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is now available.

Efforts to address legacy transuranic waste recently took an important step forward as the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) have begun size reduction activities.

Hanford Site workers recently removed a complex piece of equipment that stood in the way of future tank-waste retrieval.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) lead cleanup contractor, UCOR, has started constructing the final permitted cell in Landfill V.

Excavation crews recently attained a milestone in the construction of a new utility shaft at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).