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EM crews replaced a large culvert along a road at the West Valley Demonstration Project where heavy equipment will transport waste containers during the teardown of the Main Plant Process Building.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) today released its Strategic Vision 2022-2032, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Chief of Staff Mike Nartker revealed an updated map of the EM complex during the 2022 Waste Management Symposia today that shows one less cleanup site: Brookhaven National Laboratory.

EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White got a firsthand look at recent cleanup progress at the Hanford Site during a visit last week.

EM recently released contract award fee determination scorecards for four prime contractors that support the cleanup program at the Hanford Site based on their performance during varying evaluation periods in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2021.

Crews at the DOE INL Site are operating the final test run of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), running waste simulant through the facility to ensure the plant’s performance and personnel proficiency for upcoming radiological operations.

There’s something big going down at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

One of EM’s two plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to more stable compounds recently returned to conversion operations following a 20-month safety pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the start of 2022, EM crews at Oak Ridge have finished deactivating the former Criticality Experiment Laboratory and the mercury contaminated Column Exchange (COLEX) equipment at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12).

The Richland Operations Office (RL) and cleanup contractor CPCCo are off to a strong start on one of EM’s key construction priorities for 2022, with workers preparing to safely enclose, or “cocoon,” the seventh of nine former reactors on the Hanford Site.