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March 8, 2017Check out some of the nuclear enterprise’s superwomen and their achievements over the past year. Beth Dzenitis of Lawrence Livermor...National Nuclear Security Administration
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March 3, 2017Idaho Falls, Idaho - For more than 20 years, a gigantic building – covering seven acres of land at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho site – has been the temporary storage location for hundreds of thousands of containers filled with radioactiv...Office of Environmental Management
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March 2, 2017Former Texas Governor Rick Perry was sworn in on March 2, 2017, as the 14th Secretary of the United States Department of Energy.Energy.gov
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March 1, 2017From the turn of the last century to today, scientists have explored why superconductors never lose current.Office of Science
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February 28, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers continue to transform the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) landscape as they tear down two of its four main facilities. ...Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017CARLSBAD, N.M. – The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) transportation program will travel WIPP transportation corridors to support state-sponsored road shows to give the public an opportunity to learn about shipping waste packages to the facility.Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers are nearing completion of work at the 618-10 Burial Ground, where they removed waste from 80 vertical pipe units (VPUs)...Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017There’s a new management team at EM's two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities, with Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS) now in place as the facilities’ operating contractor.Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017AIKEN, S.C. – The EM program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished double-stacking 100 canisters to increase onsite interim storage of glassified high-level waste.Office of Environmental Management
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February 28, 2017RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) is making strides toward mitigating highly radioactive soil underneath the 324 Building near the Columbia River.Office of Environmental Management