Nuclear News & Updates

Last week, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders traveled to Japan to attend the two-day 8th International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to engage with nuclear cleanup experts from Japan, the U.S., U.K. and other countries.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is deploying drones for the first time to perform internal inspections of radioactive liquid waste tanks at the Savannah River Site.

For nearly 20 years, cleanup crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site have benefited from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Contractor Assurance System (CAS).

Contractor teams recently collaborated to transfer 4,000 gallons of wastewater between two Hanford Site facilities.

After almost a year of collaboration, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews at Savannah River Site recently completed sampling of heavy water moderator tanks, which will help determine the eventual disposition of the tritiated moderator.

Clean energy is booming, according to the 2024 U.S. Energy & Employment Report. Here are five ways nuclear energy was part of that trend in 2023.

The cleanup contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently met its fiscal year 2024 milestone of transferring 10 spent nuclear fuel baskets from first-generation vaults to second-generation storage vaults ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.