From the Blog

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR recently completed the removal of one of the final remaining structures at the former Radioisotope Development Lab at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Crews continue to make progress toward an EM 2021 priority to complete demolition of all DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California.

An EM cleanup technology is expected to reduce radioactive iodine-129 found in soil and groundwater near the center of the Savannah River Site (SRS) to levels well below regulatory limits.

EM senior representatives recently met with officials from United Kingdom cleanup organizations for an annual meeting where they focused on the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) approach to sustainability.

A typical day for the surveillance and maintenance crew at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) might begin with cleaning and sanitizing common areas and end with fixing a door, moving offices, changing a light bulb, or operating a tractor.

As the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team moves closer to starting up the first of two melters inside the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, plant contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) has launched a website.

UT collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Joint Genome Institute to study switchgrass.

Texas A&M University researchers describe a new process to purify astatine-211, a promising radioactive isotope for targeted cancer treatment.

MIT researchers use UC San Diego-based 'Comet' to develop breakthrough artificial neural networks.

University of South Carolina’s Drew Pereira works to mathematically describe the diffusion behavior of lithium in battery electrodes.