EM crews at Oak Ridge recently devised innovative approaches to enable deactivation and demolition of the final portion of the former Radioisotope Development Laboratory.
EM is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental cleanup at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) have redesigned an office building to support cleanup activities as they prepare to begin the teardown of the former Main Plant Process Building, an EM 2022 priority.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine.
A facility that will highlight the history of the K-25 Building from a new vantage point is a step closer to reality through a newly formed partnership between DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
EM and its contractors at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently achieved their 4,000th environmental cleanup milestone under a state-issued hazardous and mixed-waste permit and an agreement enacted by state and federal regulators.
Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions recently teamed to remove three 50-foot-tall exhaust stacks near the Columbia River, further transforming the Hanford Site.
Trucks carrying the last of demolition waste safely left the Energy Technology Engineering Center northwest of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, marking another milestone in EM’s cleanup following the teardown of the final DOE-owned buildings there in October.
EM is upgrading a historic reactor at Oak Ridge to keep the facility in a safe mode until its demolition is scheduled.
As EM begins to dismantle four massive electrical switchyards at the Paducah Site, the recycling of recovered materials and components is supporting local economic development while reducing or offsetting cleanup costs at the site.