EM News

Safety professionals with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently deployed a small device intended to have a big effect when it comes to worker safety at the Hanford Site.

Crews at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently started the permanent joule heating system in the second of two melters in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility.

More than 100 in-person and virtual attendees gathered at a recent Environmental Management Cleanup Forum to hear leadership from the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) discuss a mutual initiative for a hexavalent chromium groundwater plume beneath the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Marking 10 years since its formation, the DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel Working Group recently toured the Savannah River Site (SRS) and conducted a two-day meeting where its members discussed efforts to focus on going forward.

Nearly 1,000 people from across the United States attended Safety Fest TN last week to take advantage of free safety and health training. The four-day event offered more than 130 courses, seminars and demonstrations on a wide range of topics.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) program has added three electric vehicles and six charging stations to its Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site and Idaho Falls facilities.

American Association for the Advancement of Science elects Olin “Gene” Rhodes as fellow

Small Business Program managers from the One Hanford team recently hosted the 17th annual Bridging Partnerships Small Business Symposium.

As the sun was just starting to rise, hunters and their assigned escorts settled down in their assigned hunt zones on Savannah River Site (SRS), looking and listening for the prize-winning turkey on the first day of a two-day hunt recently.

A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently helped make a long-held community-wide Earth Day celebration a reality for families in a southeastern Idaho community.