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Ohio HALEU demonstration project key to successful development of advanced reactors.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) recently took another step in reducing environmental risk at the Hanford Site, as workers began retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from the fourth & final underground single-shell storage tank in the AX Farm.

The dedication, professionalism and skills of NNSA’s federal and contractor security staff across the enterprise ensure that our national security mission is successfully accomplished every day of the year.

Multiple winter storms gripping the Rocky Mountains created a perfect storm of sorts at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently as several trucks and tractor-trailers used for waste shipments were idled for days until conditions were safe.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) worked together recently at the Hanford Site to dig up five spent fuel containers from former plutonium production.

EM awarded the security services contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, to the Centerra Group of Herndon, Virginia, a single-member limited liability company and the current incumbent contractor.

With technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project, the town of Dillingham, Alaska is considering a hydropower project to help the community reach its energy resilience and environmental goals.

Catch up on EM's cleanup accomplishments across the DOE complex from 2022 with our inaugural Year in Review video and annual Year in Review report.

Ten days after beginning a heat-up process to prepare for radiological operations at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), operators noticed a small leak of non-radioactive, non-hazardous solids in a cell.