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Why now, what’s changed? This was the main question from many community members at recent public scoping meetings for the Office of Environmental Management Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Hanford firefighters are training in emergency response with teams at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant as the site gets ready to start treating radioactive waste from large, underground tanks.

Highest priority cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is removing nation’s inventory of Uranium-233 from storage in the world’s oldest operating nuclear facility

A radiation protection training supervisor has generated excitement in employee learning at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Site.

Recent upgrades have significantly improved operational efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project at the Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, sites.

Recent upgrades have significantly improved operational efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, sites.

A radiation protection training supervisor has generated excitement in employee learning at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Site with the help of life-size board games, interactive competitions, and escape rooms where employees solve puzzles that require calculations, procedures and job knowledge to solve.

The Paducah-McCracken County NAACP recently honored U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Paducah Site Lead April Ladd for her leadership and commitment to community engagement during the organization’s Rosa Parks Power of One Banquet.

More than 100 people attended the first U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus event of the year, where officials spoke to the theme of “Cleanup Today for a Nuclear Tomorrow —How the DOE Office of Environmental Management is Helping to Unleash Energy Innovation and Commercial Nuclear Power.”

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