Nuclear News & Updates

EM recently moved a significant step toward closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building, which could comfortably house a modern U.S. aircraft carrier.

Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) staff at the Hanford Site recently conducted a drill simulating the response to an abnormality in the plant’s power system.

If you’re looking to learn more about Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer’s legacy, the Manhattan Project, and how both laid the foundation for the modern-day Department of Energy, have we got the blog for you.

San Francisco start-up Gamma Reality, Inc. (GRI) has revolutionized radiation detection by creating safer, efficient real-time 3D mapping technologies.

On July 16, 1945, the research and development efforts of the nation’s once-secret Manhattan Project were realized with the detonation of the world’s first nuclear device at the code-named “Trinity” test site over 200 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico

A team of leaders from EM headquarters and cleanup sites traveled to London, United Kingdom, to participate in a workshop with U.K. and Canadian government representatives and impacted stakeholders from July 11-14.

EM’s revised roadmap for completion of the liquid waste program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is now available.

Efforts to address legacy transuranic waste recently took an important step forward as the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) have begun size reduction activities.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed a penthouse enclosure as part of ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

Hanford Site workers recently removed a complex piece of equipment that stood in the way of future tank-waste retrieval.