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Look back on the Office of Electricity’s 2021 accomplishments and achievements.

Offices. Apartments. Schools. Homes. These buildings—and more—are where Americans live, work, play, and learn. Yet every year, buildings contribute roughly 35% of our country’s climate-altering carbon emissions.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have reached an important agreement with South Carolina and federal environmental regulators on the final cleanup of a 25-mile-long stream corridor at the site.

Preparations are well underway to transfer nearly 2,000 highly radioactive capsules from the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) to interim dry storage at the Hanford Site.

In 2021, CESER pioneered cutting-edge research, advanced collective preparedness and response to evolving energy sector threats, and made huge strides to build security into the future, clean energy grid.

EM has established its key priorities for calendar year 2022, covering planned cleanup, project construction, acquisition and other important accomplishments to advance EM’s environmental and risk-reduction mission.

With 2021 in the books, crews are gearing up for a busy year of projects that will build on previous accomplishments and continue altering the landscape in Oak Ridge.

EM has turned to a local laboratory to address a challenging contaminated groundwater plume that resulted from Cold War operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

After another year of extensive equipment upgrades, EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is conducting its FY22 processing campaign at the Hanford Site’s Effluent Treatment Facility.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm honored DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) team from Oak Ridge with the Secretary’s Achievement Award during a virtual ceremony today for successfully removing a former uranium enrichment complex.