From the Blog

About 50 students from an area high school recently visited the Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center for STEM Day.

The U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office and its contractor partners, Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), collaborated to host the DOE/ Energy Facility Contractors Group Fire Protection Workshop.

A series of recent job fairs hosted by the EM Los Alamos Field Office cleanup contractor have resulted in 26 new employees supporting the mission to address environmental impacts from legacy operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Whether by barge, truck or train, when large pieces of equipment arrive at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) on the Hanford Site, the crane and rigging team is trusted to plan and perform delivery and installation.

An EM director joined other federal government representatives last week to focus on succession planning and the “great resignation” in the final installment of the 2022 FEDTalks Key Executive Leadership Programs Speaker Series.

EM’s Portsmouth Site recently evaluated the use of electric mowers to provide a safer, greener future for grounds maintenance activities.

EM technical staff at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are doing their part to pass the baton to the next generation of aspiring scientists and engineers.

EM and its liquid waste contractor at Savannah River Site (SRS) have safely and successfully entombed in concrete two previously radioactive structures.

Ceramic particles may be the key to making concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants more efficient.

Ongoing research conducted by a West Texas A&M University team into how climate change can be measured recently won a $150,000 grant from DOE.