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Workers on the Hanford Site are preparing to cut into the dome of an underground waste-storage tank later this summer to get ready for future waste retrieval operations.

The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) has successfully completed — on or ahead of schedule — seven of 14 fiscal year 2023 (FY23) milestones for legacy cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

EM has marked a major achievement in the effort to expand interim storage of canisters of vitrified high-level waste at the Savannah River Site (SRS) while saving taxpayer dollars.

One of two new raw water pumps EM workers recently installed at the Paducah Site’s water treatment facility has reduced energy consumption for pumping water by approximately 63% and lowered water usage by about 1 million gallons per day.

DOE on Friday kicked off its “Cleanup to Clean Energy” initiative, an innovative effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands — portions of which were previously used in the nation’s nuclear weapons program — into the sites of clean-energy generation.

The skyline of the West Valley Demonstration Project is forever changed after EM crews recently removed the remaining portion of the Main Plant Process Building’s iconic ventilation stack.

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company have placed the final protective layer in Trench 31, a waste-disposal trench near the center of the Hanford Site.

Deploy23 is the first annual gathering across the clean energy supply chain to discuss opportunities and challenges to private and public sector capital allocation needed to deploy at scale the technologies critical to reach a net-zero economy by 2050.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently wrapped up initial worker training sessions on sustaining a nuclear safety culture, as the pace of Hanford Site operations picks up.