Nuclear News & Updates

The axiom that a picture is worth a thousand words is especially true when communicating the complex work at DOE cleanup sites, according to Dylan Nichols, photographer for EM’s Paducah Site.

At the end of last year, EM leaders William “Ike” White and Jeff Avery traveled West to visit nuclear legacy sites.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B), the legacy cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have completed field work at the Middle DP Road (MDPR) Site.

With 2023 in the books, DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is moving ahead with an ambitious slate of projects this year that will alter the site’s skyline, remove inventories of nuclear waste and complete a major phase of cleanup.

Last month, crews at EM’s Paducah Site reached a significant deactivation milestone, starting converter segmentation at the C-333 Process Building, one of four massive process buildings slated to be demolished during the site’s environmental cleanup.

Dozens of members of the public and several members of the Hanford Site’s citizen advisory board were among the attendees at the Hanford Dialogue, a discussion about site cleanup at a recent meeting.

The axiom that a picture is worth a thousand words is especially true when communicating the complex work at DOE cleanup sites, according to Dylan Nichols, photographer for EM’s Paducah Site.

How do you prepare to demolish a 1-million-square-foot facility? One piece at a time.