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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently received its 13,000th shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste, marking an important landmark in EM’s mission to clean up the country’s Cold War legacy.

The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant has completed all startup testing of components and systems associated with transforming low-activity tank waste into a safe form for disposal.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) has been able to navigate shallow sections of the Rio Grande and its tributaries to sample for contaminants despite unseasonably low water levels this year.

EM’s Paducah Site is constructing a key facility in the cleanup of the former gaseous diffusion plant.

OTT Director Dr. Vanessa Z. Chan presented at the 2021 Carrier Decarbonization and Carbon Tech Summit.

The Hanford Site is on the verge of initial radioactive and chemical waste treatment.

EM achieved unprecedented progress on the mega-sized Saltstone Disposal Units (SDU) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in the past year.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a subcontract worth about $3.3 million to Kennewick, Washington-based Apollo Mechanical to advance important risk-reduction work.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26), Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) Dr. Jennifer Wilcox underscored the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) support for the Biden-Harris ...

Through Fiscal Year 2021, the clean energy and auto manufacturing projects in LPO’s portfolio have directly and cumulatively avoided more than 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.