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RICHLAND, Wash. – The Reduction-Oxidation Plant, or REDOX, was shut down more than 40 years ago.

AIKEN, S.C. – Employees at the Savannah River Site developed a safe, efficient fix to a tricky problem that long impacted sampling tanks storing ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office and contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company designed and engineered a portable water-treatment system to help solve a one-of-a-kind problem at the Plutonium Finishing Plant.

CARLSBAD, N.M. – EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) today announced receipt of its first shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste since WIPP reopened in January.

MOAB, Utah – Portage, Inc., contractor for EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, met the majority of its performance goals for fiscal year 2016, earning more than $1 million, or 72 percent, of the nearly $1.5 million available aw...

WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) declared the Vitrification Facility demolition-ready on March 16, after years of decontamination and deactivation to remove a variety of hazards.

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) recently installed sludge removal equipment in the 105K West Fuel Storage Basin and adjacent sludge transfer annex.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Workers removed more than 53,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste stored in an Idaho Site enclosure, creating space to safely treat other waste.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its primary cleanup contractor URS|CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) are completing comprehensive remediation and final closure of a former pond at the East Tennessee Technology Park ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers at the Hanford Site's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) finished installing a caustic scrubber, beating an interim milestone by nearly two weeks.