From the Blog

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced workers have begun the first large-scale treatment of radioactive and chemical waste from large underground tanks at the Hanford Site.

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.

The University of Kansas team will use the supercomputer to help solve one of the “grand challenges” in developing the next generation of aircraft.

A UT researcher, in collaboration with DOE, is using artificial intelligence to develop better strategies for flood predictions and preparedness.

Trucks carrying the last of demolition waste safely left the Energy Technology Engineering Center northwest of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, marking another milestone in EM’s cleanup following the teardown of the final DOE-owned buildings there in October.

An EM team was recently honored with the Secretary of Energy’s Appreciation Award for its professional expertise and pursuit of project management excellence.

EM crews have successfully completed a complex project that protects cultural and ecological resources throughout the Los Alamos National Laboratory site while enabling more thorough monitoring and characterization of a contaminant plume in groundwater.

For more than 20 years, the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site has sent shipments of defense transuranic (TRU) waste for disposal to EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

EM is upgrading a historic reactor at Oak Ridge to keep the facility in a safe mode until its demolition is scheduled.