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October 17, 2016RICHLAND, Wash. – Demolition of the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) is scheduled to begin within weeks, capping years of challen...Office of Management
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October 17, 2016WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project has completed 95 percent of deactivation activities at the Vitrification Facility, preparing for its scheduled demolition in spring 2017, several months ahead of schedule.Office of Management
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October 17, 2016RICHLAND, Wash. – A proposal to destroy organic bearing compounds and remove mercury by installing special skid-mounted treatment units to the vent pipes of tanks in Hanford’s tank farms was recently named the winner of the 2016 Grand Challenge.Office of Management
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October 17, 2016LAS VEGAS – EM recently achieved a groundwater characterization milestone at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) when the State of Nevada Di...Office of Management
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October 17, 2016AIKEN, S.C. – EM began double-stacking radioactive canisters recently at the Savannah River Site (SRS), part of an innovative effort to increase onsite interim storage capacity of glassified high-level waste.Office of Management
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October 17, 2016RICHLAND, Wash. – Regulators have approved the completion of a cleanup project on the Hanford Site that began nearly 25 years ago that successful...Office of Management
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October 17, 2016WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is about 70 percent complete toward relocating all high-level waste canisters from a building to be demolished.Office of Management
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October 17, 2016RICHLAND, Wash. – Approximately 320 Hanford Site workers arrived at work in late August as new employees of CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M), which assumed the River Corridor Closure Contract scope when Washington Closure Hanford's (WCH) ...Office of Management
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September 30, 2016ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Top EM officials highlighted a variety of accomplishments across the DOE cleanup program at the recent National Cleanup Workshop, and outlined efforts underway to support EM’s field sites in continued progress.Office of Management
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September 30, 2016ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A central theme of the “Path to EM Success in 2016 and Beyond” session at the recent National Cleanup Workshop was how EM, its site workers, regulatory agencies, states and communities will build on successful cleanup to achieve...Office of Management