From the Blog

WPTO announced an opportunity for hydropower developers and other stakeholders to receive technical assistance to address valuation hurdles in pumped storage hydropower project development and for challenges related to the HydroWIRES mission.

This Tuesday, November 8, we celebrate National STEM Day and the value that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and professionals bring to our Nation.

DOE recognized an EM team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) with its prestigious Project Management Excellence Award last week for successfully delivering a repository for radioactive grout eight months ahead of schedule and $32 million under budget.

EM’s Moab UMTRA Project recently accomplished an EM 2022 priority by successfully relocating another million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 13 million tons permanently disposed.

Jim Daffron, a 30-year Army veteran, traveled to Central America to help those hit by Hurricane Mitch and helped war-torn Iraq recover critical infrastructure.

Another year, another 2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater treated. It’s a repeat of last-year’s statistics, but a new chapter that illustrates continuous, consistent cleanup progress at the Hanford Site year after year.

EM recently completed the first-ever demolition of a reactor in the central campus area at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

In March 2019, Pochampally joined the EM Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP), where he worked on technologies to detect and inspect nuclear environments, as well as another project on water remediation.

An EM contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently carried out a plan to create a pipeline of skilled employees to help meet the needs of the cleanup program but also benefit private industries in the area.

EM crews employed a unique solution to safely close a 70-year-old well at the Savannah River Site (SRS), saving about $900,000.