From the Blog

Researchers studied the strain Issatchenkia orientalis and found it was able to produce succinic acid, a precursor for industrial polymer production.

The infrastructure challenges of NNSA, the importance of its current and future missions, and the major and minor projects across the Enterprise.

DOE recently announced the recipients of the Secretary’s Honor Awards, and three EM teams — two from the Hanford Site and one from Oak Ridge.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR have found a way to reuse mercury collected from a cleanup project.

EM ORP & contractor Bechtel National, Inc. continue to make progress in their mission to process & stabilize millions of gallons of radioactive waste.

EM and management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) completed six major environmental cleanup projects at the SRS.

EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently began transferring dissolved spent nuclear fuel to a waste processing facility two years early.

The presidents of two EM cleanup contractors have each won a national award for their commitment to safety.

A crew at EM’s WVDP recently conducted several mock-up sessions in which employees practiced properly suiting up before entering the Main Plant.

The upgrade is one of only three to be honored with a DOE project management award last year.