From the Blog

Michigan State computational chemists are revealing how persistent pollutants interact with soil minerals.

Stoerzinger will use the $750,000 prize to develop a deeper understanding of electrochemical processes used to convert nitrate into ammonia.

Over the past 24 years and spanning three liquid waste contractors, EM’s construction team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has achieved 35 million safe hours without injury resulting in a missed day of work.

EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) management and operations contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) is playing an important part in helping southeastern New Mexico students develop a lifelong interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently installed a hydraulic shear system, a major step toward remediating transuranic (TRU) waste contained in large, corrugated metal pipes buried underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1986.

Officials from the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council were on hand for the recent ribbon-cutting of a new workshop for craft workers supporting the tank waste storage and treatment mission at the Hanford Site.

EM has appointed five new members to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board (CAB).

Improving processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste are vital to the Hanford Site cleanup mission.

Nguyen was selected for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research and the Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Storage Internship Programs.

The spread of taliks — volumes of unfrozen ground within areas of permafrost — has major implications for the movement of carbon.