From the Blog

Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Site’s K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition.

Three Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently collaborated to welcome their first joint cohort of apprentices as part of the Nuclear Fundamentals Program, which will provide over 100 trained operators to the site upon its completion.

Workers have removed materials such as oils, combustibles and environmental hazards from the C-333-A Feed Vaporization Facility at EM’s Paducah Site as part of recent actions to prepare the building and its adjoining process gas building.

EM recently added two security police officers to its protective force at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) after the pair completed a seven-week security training course at DOE’s National Training Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Concrete blocks are loaded onto a metal base and transporter during tests on a gantry crane system that will lift replacement melters for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site.

A Boeing 737-700 Next Generation Series will begin operational missions this month for the Office of Secure Transportation’s Aviation Operations Division. The 2008 aircraft adds to OST’s current fleet of two 737-400 aircraft. It replaced a 1969 DC-9.

DOE is working to develop a new road map for new operations and maintenance technologies and processes for offshore wind energy sites.

A flexible textile supercapacitor patch can power a microcontroller and wirelessly transmit temperature data for nearly two hours without a recharge.

By explaining a photosynthetic peculiarity in switchgrass, Michigan State University researchers may have unlocked even more of the plant’s potential.

Volker Rose developed a one-of-a-kind microscope, combining synchrotron X-rays and scanning tunneling microscopy for insights at the atomic scale.