From the Blog

Crews at EM's Portsmouth Site recently finished excavating the first of five legacy landfills whose soil will be used to support the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently held a formal ceremony for the Hanford Fire Department.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR approximately $27.5 million for its performance from Nov. 1, 2021 through May 22, 2022, amounting to 85% of the available fee for the evaluation period.

EM contractor Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration (HLMI), which runs the Hanford Site’s 222-S Laboratory, received the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Superior Star award from DOE at a recent national conference in Washington, D.C.

The funding will be used to develop new technologies to engineer plants and microbes into bioenergy feedstocks and improve carbon storage.

Researchers studied pure iron-germanium crystals and discovered standing waves of fluid electrons appeared when the crystals were cooled.

The U.S. Department of Energy is funding a project at UC Davis to study the function of genes that regulate growth and wood formation in poplar trees.

As a materials scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Dr. Charmayne Lonergan works with glassy materials in the Radiological Materials Group of the Energy and Environment Directorate.

The Loan Programs Office (LPO) publishes the LPO Monthly Application Activity Report – a new way to understand the level of interest from applicants for LPO financing, and what technology sectors have been most actively engaged with LPO

This knowledge is critical to community leaders and planners, to make strategic decisions to deal with these changes over the next several decades.