From the Blog

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) maintained its momentum in 2022, accomplishing ambitious EM priorities, altering skylines and advancing key projects essential to up-and-coming cleanup.

EM and a contractor counterpart have outlined end-state plans for Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site facilities that will result in a prominent transformation across the 890-square-mile site within this decade.

EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Watch a new animated video showing how EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) will safely take down the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).

The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractor team recently recognized project contributions by 14 suppliers by presenting them with Premier Supply Chain Contributor Awards during a ceremony at the Hanford Site.

Drawing from innovation, purchasing tools and DOE-wide commodity agreements, an EM cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has saved more than $124 million over the last six years.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently launched a new method to quickly and easily alert Hanford Site computer users if an issue is affecting the Hanford Site network.

The Midwest Renewable Energy Association developed programs to grow Wisconsin’s solar workforce capacity and replicated their successful programs in surrounding states.

Benjamin Crider is part of the first experiment at the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

The project proposes quantum spin technology to image biochemical pathways in the rhizosphere with unprecedented chemical detail and sensitivity.