From the Blog

Grants from the NSF, the California Learning Lab, and DOE are funding collaborations with UCs Merced and Berkeley and Tuskegee University.

FEMP unveiled $104M in clean energy investment across 31 projects under Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Pentagon event highlighted transformative initiatives, federal leadership, and agency collaboration for a more sustainable future.

The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.

Arizona State University researchers contribute to discovery revealing more dynamic core-mantle interaction than previously known.

New research led by chemist Tuo Wang of Michigan State U helps deepen our understanding of how life has adapted to our planet’s harshest environments.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards to five of its Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes to fund the acceleration of education and workforce development (EWD) programs that support domestic manufacturing.

Just before the new year, there was quite the ribbon-cutting at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). At the event, the spinning teeth of a multi-ton mechanical mining machine clawed through the ceremonial ribbon and began cutting a new disposal panel out of a 250-million-year-old layer of salt beneath the New Mexico desert.

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently completed construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF), a key component of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program to treat the Hanford Site’s tank waste.

The Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) recently welcomed eight new members who bring valuable perspectives and diverse experience to the board.

EM recently announced the selection of Laura Wilkerson as chief engineer for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and the reassignment of Erik Olds from EM’s communications director to OREM’s deputy manager.