EM News Archive

The first commissioning test package was recently approved for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

EM crews have treated and repackaged 100 drums of radioactive sludge waste to date at the Accelerated Retrieval Project.

EM crews recently reached a significant milestone by modifying the 1,000th storage position for vitrified waste canisters at the Savannah River Site.

Renovations are underway to prepare a facility to process a high-dose portion of the site’s uranium-233 inventory.

A pond-like basin built in the early years of the Cold War was recently re-mediated.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have come up with a new way to raise safety awareness, just in time for 2020!

Workers have replaced the roof of a laboratory important to the Savannah River Site.

In coming months, Hanford crews will build new access roads and install lighting, utilities, and support buildings.

The skyline at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) continually changes as EM completes demolitions.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently accepted its first large-box cask in six years.

Two Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently earned 95 percent or more of award fees available to them.

An EM crew recently finished deactivating a facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project Site after safely removing asbestos-containing material.

The environment health and safety magazine has named EM’s prime infrastructure contractor at the Paducah Site as one of America’s Safest Companies.

Patrick Cunning is navigating the course of costs and schedules for tank closure project teams at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS).

2020 is set to be a historic year for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM).

EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project Site cleanup contractor recently earned nearly $323,000 of an available award fee of about $467,000.

A nuclear technology program at an area community college helps the Hanford tank operations contractor maintain a stream of qualified applicants.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $20.4 million for its performance from April 2019 - September 2019, 97% of the available fee.

Electrical utility workers at the Hanford Site have begun using a system that reconditions, or purifies, used oil, reducing environmental waste.

Deactivation and remediation workers with FRNP recently surpassed one million work hours without a lost-time accident or illness.

During the inaugural “IT for a Day” career tour, local high school students met with IT and human resources employees to learn about working at SRS.

Among the training programs an EM contractor has made available to DOE is one that aims to stop suspicious items from entering the SRS supply chain.

The MEBA, as amended, assigned the DOE the responsibility for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury.

Today, U.S. Department of Energy issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal (DD&R) contrac

The first team of chemists is setting up shop at EM Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.