Annual Priority Updates

Construction on the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant continues to progress, including excavation for tanks and piping, as seen here outside of the Salt Reduction Building recently.
Both capital projects at EM’s WIPP are making remarkable progress due to a determined, creative workforce that is overcoming the challenges of the multimillion-dollar work so the facility can operate safely and compliantly for decades to come.
EM crews demolished the Bulk Shielding Reactor this fall in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s central campus. The teardown provided a major landscape change at the site, and is the first of many projects that will eliminate risks and remove radiologically contaminated buildings there.
DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently unveiled its vision for the next decade to employees and partners, and progress is already under way toward achieving it.