Nuclear News & Updates

RICHLAND, Wash. – The last stop of plutonium processing on the Hanford Site is now one significant step closer to demolition. EM’s Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) recently isolated the main process...

PHOENIX – Senior federal and contractor officials from EM’s Office of River Protection at Hanford discussed the progress being made on the direct-feed low activity waste (DFLAW) approach for treating Hanford’s tank waste during a panel discussion...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – EM and its cleanup contractor at Oak Ridge are taking steps now to remove risks and help prepare excess facilities for eventual demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – On March 2, workers at DOE’s Idaho site celebrated the completion of transuranic waste retrieval activities at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s Transuranic Storage Area-Retrieval Enclosure (TSA-RE).

PHOENIX – Leaders from EM’s Hanford Site updated the 2017 Waste Management Symposium on progress and planned activity.

PHOENIX – Officials from EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office emphasized the theme of “One PPPO” during a panel discussion last week at the 2017 Waste Management Symposium.

PHOENIX – Acting EM Assistant Secretary, Sue Cange, met with senior Japanese officials last week to discuss continued collaboration on the cleanu...

AIKEN, S.C. – The Savannah River National Laboratory’s more than 1,000 employees – administrators, engineers, operators and scientists — completed 2016 injury-free. SRNL is one of only two National Laboratories to achieve an annual Total Record...

GERMANTOWN, Md. – The Spent Nuclear Fuel Working Group (SNFWG) held its fifth meeting on January 24 and 25.