Deactivation & Decommissioning News

EM workers provided feedback and lessons learned to help develop a new box to contain materials for disposal as they decontaminate the walls.

DOE officials approved the transfer of the former Separations Process Research Unit.

Workers have begun activities to prepare for the demolition of a nuclear reactor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

While 2020 was an unusual and challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also one of the most notable and accomplished for DOE.

EM workers have demolished two of the final eight DOE-owned buildings remaining at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site.

EM is scheduled this year to remove 750,000 Pounds of R-114 refrigerant, commonly known as Freon, from the Paducah Site.

Workers for the deactivation and decommissioning prime contractor at the Portsmouth Site recently celebrated 4 million safe work hours without a lost.

Closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building,

EM continues to make progress on its 2020 priorities. EM Update is highlighting accomplishments in EM’s priority groups through the end of this year.

Reuse of transport platforms — large elevator-like devices installed outside facilities that allow workers to access multiple floors.