From the Blog

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White toured the Savannah River Site on Feb. 17 and 18.

Crews at the DOE INL Site are operating the final test run of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), running waste simulant through the facility to ensure the plant’s performance and personnel proficiency for upcoming radiological operations.

There’s something big going down at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

Harold Conner has been a force behind many accomplishments at DOE for more than 50 years. In a career that has come full circle, he has a unique distinction of supporting uranium enrichment operations and then leading efforts related to its cleanup at OR.

One of EM’s two plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to more stable compounds recently returned to conversion operations following a 20-month safety pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

EM recently announced the expansion of its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) for postdoctoral researchers.

Since the start of 2022, EM crews at Oak Ridge have finished deactivating the former Criticality Experiment Laboratory and the mercury contaminated Column Exchange (COLEX) equipment at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12).

The Richland Operations Office (RL) and cleanup contractor CPCCo are off to a strong start on one of EM’s key construction priorities for 2022, with workers preparing to safely enclose, or “cocoon,” the seventh of nine former reactors on the Hanford Site.

In a project that saves taxpayer money, cleanup crews refurbished a former storage facility for waste disposal operations during the teardown of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).

Preparing for 24/7 operations to treat waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks isn’t a one-organization job. EM established the Technical Integration Team to progress the site-wide mission to treat waste under the DFLAW Program.