Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) News

Before and after views of the demolition of Building 175 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
EM partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) to complete the recent demolition of a building and removal of a reactor to make room for new facilities on the lab’s 1-square-mile footprint.
A recent aerial view of the Portsmouth X-326 Process Building demolition. EM's fiscal year 2023 budget request includes funding for the continued teardown of X-326, the first of three massive former gaseous diffusion plants that will be taken down at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
EM has requested a fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget of $7.64 billion, an amount that will enable the program to continue making strong, steady and sustained progress on priorities to clean up legacy nuclear sites now and in the years ahead.