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Highest priority cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is removing nation’s inventory of Uranium-233 from storage in the world’s oldest operating nuclear facility

A radiation protection training supervisor has generated excitement in employee learning at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Site.

Recent upgrades have significantly improved operational efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project at the Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, sites.

During his recent visit to Oak Ridge, Energy Secretary Chris Wright observed cleanup projects.

With the successful cleanup underway at the Oak Ridge Reservation serving as a “North Star,” the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is entering into a “unique moment”.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has the potential to play an important role in the “nuclear renaissance” underway in the United States, senior EM leaders said.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is preparing to remove a building slab at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

After successfully completing their mission in one of the largest demolition projects in Idaho National Laboratory Site history, members of the Idaho Cleanup Project workforce are being trained for other cleanup work at the site.

Sometimes major cleanup projects require some, well, post-cleanup cleanup.

X-330, the last of three former uranium enrichment process buildings set for demolition at the Portsmouth Site, received a new roof to prepare the building for deactivation, a necessary step before its teardown.