EM News

As EM continues its historic cleanup across the DOE complex, its liquid waste work is taking a higher profile.

EM sites through key investments proposed in EM’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request, reflecting the Administration’s strong commitment to cleaning up the environment in a new era of steady, sustained achievement.

EM’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request includes $56 million to expand its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).

The $7.64 billion budget request includes about $25 million for EM’s Technology Development (TD) Program.

Local officials along with leaders from DOE, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), and the University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken) broke ground on the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC) facility to be built on the USC Aiken campus.

he National Weather Service (NWS) determined that the highest temperature in the history of Washington state was recorded in June at the Hanford Meteorological Station.

EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White has approved a proposal that will save decades of work and billions of dollars in spent nuclear fuel disposition at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

With its steep canyons and watersheds emptying into the Rio Grande, numerous ancient pueblo cultural sites, and wildlife ranging from black bears to broad-tailed hummingbirds, the Pajarito Plateau creates a distinct backdrop for environmental remediation.

EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant moved a step closer to completing a milestone when employees began filling the last disposal room in Panel 7 in the underground repository with transuranic waste.

EM has prepared the East Column Exchange (COLEX) equipment at Oak Ridge for demolition following deactivation work that involved retrieving mercury from the deteriorating structures to prevent a potential environmental release.