Leadership News

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has the potential to play an important role in the “nuclear renaissance” underway in the United States, senior EM leaders said.

Interview with Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Manager, Joel Bradburne.

Stakeholders from eight sites recently gathered in Oak Ridge for the two-day Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board National Chairs meeting, where they heard cleanup program updates from EM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jeff Avery.

The 2024 National Cleanup Workshop kicked off its 10th year with an event dedicated to early career professionals, offering them insights into how to grow and succeed in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cleanup program.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders participated in a U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus event titled, “EM's Trade Workforce: Getting the Job Done,” on Sept. 18.

This special wrap-up section of the weekly EM Update focuses on the National Cleanup Workshop, held Sept. 16-18 in Arlington, Virginia.

In a recent visit to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk and DOE Office of Environmental Management Senior Advisor Candice Robertson took a tour that went 2,000 feet into Earth where transuranic waste is being emplaced in mined salt beds.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm delivered the keynote address at the 2024 National Cleanup Workshop.

More than 70 community leaders from Paducah, Kentucky, met with leadership with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management to discuss federal priorities and continued collaboration on future cleanup and land transfer during the annual Paducah Chamber of Commerce Fly-In.

Last week, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders traveled to Japan to attend the two-day 8th International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to engage with nuclear cleanup experts from Japan, the U.S., U.K. and other countries.