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Construction is almost complete on a dry-storage area for 1,936 radioactive cesium and strontium capsules currently housed in an underwater basin at the nearby Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) at the Hanford Site.

EM has doubled the number of work shifts for employees in glovebox operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to advance DOE’s mission of removing plutonium from South Carolina.

EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently marked a milestone after receiving its 100th waste shipment from Oak Ridge, Tennessee since shipments resumed in August 2017, following a fire and radiological events in the WIPP underground in 2014.

Washington River Protection Solutions, the EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site, has awarded three subcontracts worth nearly $19 million to a local company for construction projects to support tank waste projects.

The University of Georgia’s (UGA) Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), located on the Savannah River Site (SRS), recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of its creation.

The COVID-19 pandemic fast-forwarded the adoption and adaptation of the digital workplace and like at many EM sites, numerous work groups at the Hanford Site have mastered that shift.

Once home to a massive power plant and oil tanks, the former Powerhouse Area at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) is now a clean, grassy field primed for future recreational use.

EM’s use of repurposed, Cold War-era hot cells at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continues to pay big dividends by allowing workers to address some of the most challenging waste types at the Idaho Cleanup Project.

EM’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently finished the final phase of jobsite roadway and parking lot paving work for Hanford’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facilities.

EM’s Richland Operations Office and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company have safely packaged and shipped the first engineered container of highly contaminated filter media from the K West Reactor spent fuel storage basin to T Plant.