EM has updated its popular “By the Numbers” feature, which illustrates cleanup progress at EM sites through quick and clear infographics.

Facts and figures on each major EM site, plus the Savannah River National Laboratory, can be found here. Each site page also features a key look forward to an anticipated achievement over the next decade, as described in more detail in “EM Vision 2020-2030: A Time of Transition and Transformation,” a report released earlier this year.

Some tidbits from the new “By the Numbers:”

• 18 underground waste tanks have been emptied at the Hanford Site using multiple retrieval technologies, with more than 3 million gallons of waste retrieved.
• More than 263,000 barrels of transuranic waste were super-compacted at the Idaho Site, eliminating the need for thousands of additional shipments to a permanent, offsite repository.
• More than one-half of legacy cleanup has been completed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Site.
• At the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, 42 extraction and freshwater injection wells protect surface water quality and recover ammonia, uranium, and other contaminations before they can be discharged into the Colorado River.
• By 2028, the EM Nevada Program will transition the final Nevada National Security Site groundwater characterization area, Pahute Mesa, into long-term monitoring.
• 500,000 cancer treatment doses will be generated annually from isotopes extracted from the uranium-233 inventory at the Oak Ridge Site.
• 4.4 billion gallons of groundwater have been treated to remove contaminants using pump-and-treat technology at the Paducah Site, significantly reducing off-site groundwater contamination.
• Ten buildings that comprise the former Radioactive Materials Handling Facility complex at the Energy Technology Engineering Center Site are scheduled for demolition following an agreement with the state of California.
• More than 26 million pounds of excess materials diverted from landfills are a result of recycling at the Portsmouth Site. The materials were successfully repurposed through the site’s community reuse organization, the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative.
• More than 10,800 cubic meters of transuranic waste has been shipped from the Savannah River Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. That amounts to more than 35,000 containers of waste in more than 1,670 shipments since 2001.
• 29,000 square feet of building footprint has been demolished at the Separations Process Research Unit.
• Over 12,500 shipments safely transported more than 15 million loaded miles to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
• The Savannah River National Laboratory has saved EM more than $5 billion over the past 10 years due to innovations developed by its scientists.
• More than 7 miles of piping and more than 50 tons of equipment have been removed from high-hazard areas of the West Valley Demonstration Project.