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The Office of Environmental Management has safely completed the largest, most complex demolition of a radioactively contaminated facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project to date, achieving a 2025 priority for the cleanup program.

Workers are preparing to begin construction on a new disposal cell at the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF), an engineered landfill at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington.

Just six months into 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has racked up significant cleanup accomplishments across the country, with more progress on the horizon, senior EM federal and contractor executives said here last week. June 17, 2025.

Two decades ago, one contract encompassing the work of the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy offices at the Idaho National Laboratory was split into two, one for each office. June 17, 2025.

Workers at the Hanford Site have nearly completed excavation at a former waste site near the Columbia River. June 17, 2025.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has received regulatory concurrence that the Savannah River Site has successfully removed waste from two more tanks ahead of schedule, marking another major cleanup milestone. June 17, 2025.

Federal and contractor team members across the cleanup complex have been honored for demonstrating exceptional performance in making small business vital to the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission success. June 17. 2025.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor Isotek Systems found savings of more than $10,000 annually thanks to the initiative and questioning attitude of its employees. June 17, 2025.

Hanford crews are preparing for the site’s first-ever transfer of radioactive waste from one of its large underground tanks to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. June 17, 2025.