From Our Blogs

Members of Congress and their staff, DOE officials and others visited EM’s Portsmouth Site in recent weeks where they received updates on future use plans for the site as well as decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) progress.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has established a new workforce retention incentive that rewards the union construction team for progress as it builds the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility.

EM is testing technologies and processes needed to help immobilize Hanford Site tank waste in glass through a process called vitrification.

EM crews at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently completed their 100th plutonium downblend in fiscal year 2023 safely and ahead of schedule as part of ongoing work to remove the material from South Carolina.

Workers at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) have begun removing the first three of 18 temporary startup heaters.

Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) completed a significant milestone demolition of four buildings at the Test Cell C (TCC) Facility at Area 25.

The Office of Electricity’s (OE) Grid Systems and Component Division ensures that the nation’s electric grid can accommodate and support all electrical generation sources and loads.

The Loan Programs Office (LPO) publishes the LPO Monthly Application Activity Report – a new way to understand the level of interest from applicants for LPO financing, and what technology sectors have been most actively engaged with LPO.

A new U.S. Department of Energy report finds promise in pairing nuclear reactors with direct air capture system.

EM achieves another milestone in its offsite shipping and disposal of depleted uranium oxide from the Portsmouth site.