Deactivation & Decommissioning News

EM is set to further alter the SRS skyline over the next five months with the demolition of five buildings in an area of the site where Cold War workers once created heavy water for reactors and produced power & steam in a five-story coal fired powerhouse

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CPCCo is preparing to implement key components of a system that will isolate and stabilize about 15,000 pounds of radioactive debris in the K West Reactor spent fuel storage basin on the Hanford Site.

It’s Earth Month every month on the Hanford Site, where workers routinely ship tens of thousands of pounds of universal waste and recycling to the site’s Centralized Consolidation/Recycling Center (CCRC) for processing.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR recently completed the removal of one of the final remaining structures at the former Radioisotope Development Lab at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Crews continue to make progress toward an EM 2021 priority to complete demolition of all DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California.

EM senior representatives recently met with officials from United Kingdom cleanup organizations for an annual meeting where they focused on the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) approach to sustainability.

A typical day for the surveillance and maintenance crew at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) might begin with cleaning and sanitizing common areas and end with fixing a door, moving offices, changing a light bulb, or operating a tractor.

Roadways, railroads, water and sewage treatment facilities, a bank, a post office, a fire department, and security force — all of this made up EM’s Paducah Site more than 60 years ago.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently completed actions to stabilize three at-risk underground structures on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau.

WVDP workers are preparing to remove ductwork that carried exhaust from past operations at the Main Plant Process Building as part of deactivation preparations for the facility’s future demolition — among EM’s 2021 priorities.