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Pictured from left at the K-25 History Center are Jimmy Hughes, UCOR; Lanre Akande, intern with the EM Office of Regulatory and Policy Affairs; Joanna Hardin, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management; Alan Cumming, United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA); Kent Fortenberry, UCOR; Gareth Taylor, NDA; Nancy Buschman, EM Office of Regulatory and Policy Affairs; and Nathalie Schmidt, UCOR. The visitors from the NDA learned about Oak Ridge’s history, including the completion of EM’s major cle
Leadership from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) came together recently to exchange best practices for decommissioning facilities and a host of other cleanup topics.
A Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant crew added the first frit, or glass beads, to the melter inside the Low-Activity Waste Facility last week.
The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks at "Cleanup to Clean Energy" Industry Day held July 28.
DOE on Friday kicked off its “Cleanup to Clean Energy” initiative, an innovative effort to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands — portions of which were previously used in the nation’s nuclear weapons program — into the sites of clean-energy generation.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White participated in the EM Los Alamos Field Office and Los Alamos cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos quarterly public outreach meeting, the Environmental Management Cleanup Forum, “From Oppenheimer to Tomorrow,” in historic Fuller Lodge, during White’s recent visit to New Mexico.
With the recent uptick in interest in the role Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) played in the World War II-era Manhattan Project, EM Senior Advisor William White was joined by EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) officials in a visit to Los Alamos.