Deactivation & Decommissioning News

For about a dozen teens, summer camp brought them into the world of EM's environmental cleanup at Oak Ridge.

EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) recently awarded the Portsmouth Site decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) contractor about $16.6 million.

Some things are worth the wait. After a two-year pause due to the COVID pandemic, DOE’s public bus tour at Oak Ridge officially kicked off a new tour season last week with a new attraction thanks to the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM).

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its cleanup contractor UCOR are poised to significantly alter the landscape at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the coming months.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently signed an agreement outlining a partnership to deliver mission success.

Officials from EM and Ohio University recently joined a class at Ohio’s Western High School to celebrate the 11th cohort of students to complete an EM Annual Site Environmental Report (ASER) Summary project.

EM is on track for success in meeting most of its priority goals for 2022, including a handful that already have been completed.

A massive steel structure is rising more than 120 feet above the semiarid landscape of southeastern Washington, with construction well underway on the protective enclosure.

Hefty equipment passes over the Haul Road bridge in Oak Ridge. Its dark red metal stands out against the lush green East Tennessee hills.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently completed the demolition of the X-326 uranium process building, marking the most significant cleanup milestone to date at its Portsmouth Site.