Safety News

A discussion panel for the 2023 Waste Management Symposia provided Hanford Site leadership the opportunity to showcase how teamwork is contributing to cleanup mission progress.

A new construction project will deliver additional environmental protections for a Hanford Site tank farm.

Addressing mercury contamination at the Y-12 National Security Complex is one of the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) top priorities.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely completed demolition of seven areas of the Main Plant Process Building after launching the project early last fall.

Workers are moving nearly 5,000 tons of equipment from the X-333 Process Building to a demolition pad where the X-326 Process Building once stood at EM’s Portsmouth Site.

Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Site’s K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition.

Three Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently collaborated to welcome their first joint cohort of apprentices as part of the Nuclear Fundamentals Program, which will provide over 100 trained operators to the site upon its completion.

Workers have removed materials such as oils, combustibles and environmental hazards from the C-333-A Feed Vaporization Facility at EM’s Paducah Site as part of recent actions to prepare the building and its adjoining process gas building.

EM recently added two security police officers to its protective force at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) after the pair completed a seven-week security training course at DOE’s National Training Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Concrete blocks are loaded onto a metal base and transporter during tests on a gantry crane system that will lift replacement melters for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site.