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EM crews at the Hanford Site's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently installed 18 temporary startup heaters, one of which is pictured, in the second of two melters in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility.

EM racked up eight of the Secretary’s Honor Awards for 2023, with DOE recognizing two employees at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for excellence and six teams from the Idaho, Hanford, Portsmouth and Oak Ridge sites for achievements.

EM marked transformative accomplishments in fiscal year 2023, highlighting significant hiring and innovation advances, and a strengthened commitment to veteran employment and workforce diversity.

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are demolishing a former chemical storage area near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the Hanford Site’s five former plutonium production facilities.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed the largest of nine tanks from a liquid waste cell as part of the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project safely demolished a former security guardhouse built in 1965, one of the first facilities constructed at the former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.

During the calendar year of 2023, the team at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant had its best shipment performance in 10 years, continuing the cleanup of sites in New Mexico and across the country.

EM has made significant progress in reducing the transuranic (TRU) waste inventory at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), fulfilling a commitment to the State of Idaho.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) have completed the first waste processing campaign through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System at the Hanford Site.

Two EM sites are among the recipients of grants totaling more than $104 million for 31 projects across the country to support energy conservation measures, saving taxpayers $29 million in the first year of operations and drastically reducing the federal carbon footprint.