From the Blog

Like the gold at Fort Knox and the Hope Diamond, Hanford’s “valuables” were once housed in one of the most secure facilities in the nation.

Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed startup testing of a radioactive liquid waste disposal system that will play an instrumental role during future operations to treat waste from the site’s large underground tanks.

EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) have released two videos related to the planned demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

EM’s main contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) helped fund two centers for an area school district where students can stretch their imaginations while honing their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills.

EM’s cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has awarded subcontracts valued at more than $1 billion to small and diverse businesses locally and nationally in the past four years.

DOE awarded four financial assistance grants, totaling approximately $33.5 million, to Oregon and Washington state last week.

Researchers at the University of Miami found that salinity changes as a result of water cycle changes lead to less surface warming.

The team will create “circular polymers” materials that break the current linear economic framework of make, use, and dispose.

The team determined that the metabolic cost of building and maintaining synapses likely drives larger neural networks to be sparser.

Oregon State University chemistry professor May Nyman has been selected as one of the leaders of a $24 million federal effort.