EM News

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently met key milestones in a cleanup campaign to reevaluate whether certain sites around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with historical contamination pose a risk to human or environmental health.

Work by the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) to provide additional groundwater protection at one of the Hanford Site’s groupings of large underground waste tanks is nearing completion.

Senior leaders from EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) hosted a Community Forum and Open House on July 7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Savannah River Site’s (SRS) Environmental Monitoring Program has become the framework for a new nationally applied nuclear industry standard.

EM Richland Operations Office prime contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a subcontract to continue critical risk-reduction work along the Columbia River at the Hanford Site.

Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk made his first trip to the Hanford Site on June 28, visiting a number of cleanup projects with EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White.

Northwest Indian College (NWIC) of Bellingham, Washington, will be awarded a grant of up to $5 million to train future scientists and engineers through EM’s recently expanded Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).

DOE has approved a new plan that will accelerate the disposition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) by more than 20 years and result in a savings of more than $4 billion dollars.

Crews have launched an unmanned aircraft system drone program at the Hanford Site, offering a new capability to improve operating processes in the field.