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The Hanford Site recently hosted National Weather Service (NWS) Western Region Director Grant A. Cooper, who toured the site’s emergency operations center and meteorological station.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Today we celebrate Alma Contreras, a first-generation college grad who went on to work at the Hanford site, and now leads #NNSA’s non-nuclear components program management office.

NNSA’s Office of Emergency Operations responsible for administering and leading the implementation and integration of emergency management programs across DOE and NNSA.

Consider the following heart-pounding scenario hundreds of employees responded to as part of the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) recent annual emergency exercise.

Get up to speed with these five fast facts about spent nuclear fuel.

DOE is committed to working closely with African governments and private sector companies to help identify solutions and partnership opportunities as they determine how to best meet their specific energy needs.

Several governments and U.S. federal agencies came together in Singapore to discuss strategic trade controls best practices and highlight updates to export control laws and regulations across the region.

Meet Laura Fornicola, who leads #NNSA engagements with our nuclear security partners in the United Kingdom, ensuring stability for our nation and our allies. Laura helped grow a two-person team into the Office of International Programs.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with funding from WPTO, recently completed the most comprehensive study into the effects of drought on hydropower generation in the United States this century.

EM crews at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) jointly observed a day focused on safety last week to review transuranic (TRU) waste shipping and receipt procedures.