Nuclear News & Updates

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.

The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for qualifications related to the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative for utility-scale energy projects within the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site. Today’s announcement reinforces the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to leveraging federal properties to increase the deployment of clean power through the buildout of utility-scale clean energy projects.

Workers at the Hanford Site recently finished filling the last large concrete basin at the K Reactor Area with cement-like grout. The basin stored reactor fuel rods from the plutonium production mission.

When crews with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR finished demolishing the mile-long K-25 Building more than a decade ago, they left behind a massive 44-acre footprint that’s now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

A One Hanford contractor partnership has developed a new process to ensure radioactive and chemical tank waste is ready for pretreatment quickly and efficiently at the Hanford Site.

Candice Robertson has taken over as the new head of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM).