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WASHINGTON, D.C. – EM continues to achieve cleaner air while reducing costs.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers with Hanford Site contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company recently finished retrieving a total of 2,201 drums of waste from trenches in the 618-10 Burial Ground.

Meet Merlin Theodore: Director of the Carbon Fiber Technology Facility.

PHOENIX – EM is moving forward with a new strategic planning initiative to better tackle the longer-term challenges the DOE cleanup program faces, Acting Assistant EM Secretary Sue Cange said here last week during the 2017 Waste Management Symposium.

PHOENIX – EM’s recent efforts to become a more field-centric organization are already reaping rewards, senior EM officials said here last week during a panel discussion at the 2017 Waste Management Symposium.

AIKEN, S.C. – On March 2, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State, and DOE cleanup project management and staff from the DOE sites in EPA Region 4 — Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Savannah River Site — met at the Savannah River Site (SRS) at ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – The last stop of plutonium processing on the Hanford Site is now one significant step closer to demolition. EM’s Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) recently isolated the main process...

PHOENIX – Senior federal and contractor officials from EM’s Office of River Protection at Hanford discussed the progress being made on the direct-feed low activity waste (DFLAW) approach for treating Hanford’s tank waste during a panel discussion...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – EM and its cleanup contractor at Oak Ridge are taking steps now to remove risks and help prepare excess facilities for eventual demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – On March 2, workers at DOE’s Idaho site celebrated the completion of transuranic waste retrieval activities at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s Transuranic Storage Area-Retrieval Enclosure (TSA-RE).