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Paducah Site Partnership Benefits Domestic Violence Victims Center

Anne Marie White was sworn in March 29 as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the U.S. Department of Energy.

DOE is carrying out its cleanup program with a “completion mindset,” senior Department and EM officials said in Phoenix last week.

Many opportunities exist to use robotics underwater, inside nuclear facilities, and underground to advance DOE’s cleanup work.

As it celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2018, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was a featured site at this year’s Waste Management Symposia.

EM & contractor officials last week highlighted progress with cleanup projects underway at the former Portsmouth and Paducah gaseous diffusion plants.

Hanford's WTP is on track to vitrify tank waste as soon as December 2021, Brian Vance, manager of the EM Office of River Protection, said last week.

Tele-operated robotic arms and manipulators could provide key advances in glove box and hot cell design and operations.

EM and contractor officials discussed here last week the path forward for WIPP following the resumption of waste shipments to the facility.

As part of EM's commitment to more timely decision-making, work is underway to identify ways to accelerate the competing & award of cleanup contracts.