Nuclear News & Updates

With support from DOE's Accident Tolerant Fuel Program, one company is pioneering the use of silicon carbide to create nuclear fuel cladding that's tougher than ever.

Workers have finished removing radioactive waste from the 21st large underground storage tank as part of the massive cleanup of the Hanford Site in southeast Washington state.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently crossed a major milestone: the 14,000th shipment of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste was delivered to its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and emplaced in the underground repository.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named Nino Travljanin its 2023 Safety System Oversight (SSO) Engineer of the Year.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews are working to safely demolish the largest remaining structure used in a project to retrieve targeted buried waste at a Cold War-era landfill at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews at Oak Ridge are moving closer toward completing the first-ever demolition of a former uranium enrichment facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex as crews reroute utilities around the structure.

“Jobs IRL: Looking at Jobs on a More Atomic Level,” a new radio series on National Public Radio’s (NPR) “Marketplace Morning Report,” recently highlighted unique career opportunities and job training offered at Savannah River Site (SRS).

Employees with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have been recognized nationally for “superior” technical papers presented at Waste Management (WM) Symposia held earlier this year.