EM News

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) logged another successful year, achieving all of its EM priorities for 2023 and advancing cleanup across the site.

EM’s use of aerial drones at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site is enabling cleanup contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) to collect valuable data, protect workers and reduce costs.

Envisioning a future for EM sites can be challenging for communities given the longevity of cleanup activities. However, when two sites have an almost identical footprint — in this case Portsmouth in Ohio and Paducah in Kentucky — the opportunity to see potential becomes clearer.

EM’s contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site took an important step in its efforts to support science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education in Idaho with the formation of its weSTEAM program.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its legacy cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are making steady progress in a key program central to the legacy cleanup mission.

EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is giving nine college students the opportunity to jump-start their careers this year through a hybrid work program while finishing their engineering or computer science studies.

Teams at EM’s Hanford Site recently welcomed a group of engineers from the United Kingdom’s Sellafield Site for a visit to exchange technical information and insights about ongoing cleanup missions at both sites.

EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Savannah River National Laboratory.

The winners of this year’s DOE West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl T-shirt Design Contest celebrated “Making Breakthroughs” with their design.

An EM contractor for the Savannah River Site (SRS) was recently awarded the Transformational and Operational Excellence Award at the South Carolina Manufacturing Conference and Expo for achievements in continuous improvement and operational excellence that generated over $42 million in cost savings during fiscal year 2023.