EM News

A typical day for the surveillance and maintenance crew at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) might begin with cleaning and sanitizing common areas and end with fixing a door, moving offices, changing a light bulb, or operating a tractor.

As the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team moves closer to starting up the first of two melters inside the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, plant contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) has launched a website.

An innovative public-private partnership continues to grow after a nuclear innovation company recently announced additional work in Oak Ridge that will generate increased taxpayer savings while helping accelerate cancer treatment research.

EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is once again accepting shipments and processing transuranic waste following a successful annual maintenance outage that keeps the facility’s vital national mission going.

For the first time, camera-mounted drones recently hovered, dipped, and glided above EM’s remediated waste sites at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to ensure the structural integrity of the protective covers over them.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) commitment to its mission includes a move to low-emission and battery-electric vehicles in its underground repository.

Roadways, railroads, water and sewage treatment facilities, a bank, a post office, a fire department, and security force — all of this made up EM’s Paducah Site more than 60 years ago.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently completed actions to stabilize three at-risk underground structures on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau.

WVDP workers are preparing to remove ductwork that carried exhaust from past operations at the Main Plant Process Building as part of deactivation preparations for the facility’s future demolition — among EM’s 2021 priorities.