LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White visited the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) on Feb. 8-9 to tour key projects underway to address the cleanup from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) legacy operations. White and EM Acting Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs Jay Mullis toured with staff members from EM-LA and its cleanup contractor, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, receiving briefings on work to ship legacy waste offsite, protect water quality, remediate contaminated soil and debris, and decontaminate and demolish historical LANL buildings.

EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, third from right, finishes his tour of the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) legacy cleanup sites.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, third from right, finishes his tour of the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) legacy cleanup sites.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, far left, observes preparations underway to implement a processing line that allows the removal of liquids from drums containing transuranic (TRU) waste.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, far left, observes preparations underway to implement a processing line that allows the removal of liquids from drums containing transuranic (TRU) waste.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White receives a briefing from Ellen Gammon, the Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) transuranic waste management director.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, far left, receives a briefing on a campaign to retrieve 158 metal pipes — similar in appearance to culverts — filled with cemented radiologically contaminated wastewater treatment sludge.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White receives a briefing from Ellen Gammon, the Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) transuranic waste management director.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White receives a briefing from Ellen Gammon, the Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) transuranic waste management director.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, at right, is briefed on progress to control migration of a plume contaminated with hexavalent chromium in groundwater beneath the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White, at right, is briefed on progress to control migration of a plume contaminated with hexavalent chromium in groundwater beneath the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site.