EM News Archive

EM’s ORP safely finished energizing the Analytical Laboratory at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently.

Workers continued cleanup progress after recently removing a 2,000-pound dust collector from a facility slated for demolition at EM’s WVDP Site.

It’s nearly impossible to see the integrity of metal plates that form the base of the DSTs buried at Hanford, but hearing them may help researchers.

EM gave its D&D contractor at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio a “good” evaluation.

EM recently announced the appointment of seven industry leaders to DOE’s EMAB. They join 11 returning board members.

The National Safety Council recognized two safety managers with DOE’s OREM cleanup contractor as 2018 Rising Stars of Safety.

Hanford Patrol officers from EM RL contractor Mission Support Alliance hosted 87 law enforcement teams from across Washington state.

– EM’s Moab UMTRA Project recently welcomed more than 40 members of the public to the site as a part of the third annual Moab Festival of Science.

EM contractor PMA recently received DOE VPP “STAR” recognition for the eighth consecutive year on behalf of the infrastructure support workforce.

DOE Releases Request for Information/Sources Sought for EM WVDP Phase 1B Deactivation & Demolition (D&D) and Soil Remediation Procurement

Trucks are delivering engineered grout to stabilize a waste storage tunnel on the Hanford Site.

EM Assistant Secretary Anne White visited the Hanford Site last week. Following is her report on the trip.

About 8,500 gallons of low-level liquid waste from an underground waste tank at SRS have been treated and transferred to SDU 6.

To help develop the future workforce, Hanford Site contractors and community leaders held the second annual Connect Tri-Cities event last week.

OREM and its cleanup contractor UCOR have demolished 5 buildings in the Poplar Creek area of ETTP since last year, and one more will soon be added.

EM and its cleanup contractor at the INL recently completed a complex waste processing project that will allow 214 waste drums to leave the state.

The Washington State Department of Ecology has granted the permits needed for Hanford’s WTP, or Vit Plant, to finish construction of the EMF.

The SRS management and operations contractor, SRNS, received the PMI Award for Project Excellence at the PMI Professional Awards Gala on Oct. 6.

The EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor N3B safely and successfully completed the first waste shipment since January 2017.

EM’s SRS liquid waste contractor recently earned an “excellent” rating and just over $12 million — or 96% of the available fee — for its performance.

EM and its SRNL continue to consolidate critical analytical capabilities and reduce the SRS's operational footprint.

EM Office of River Protection tank farms contractor WRPS recently finished installing a new cover for a LERF basin at the Hanford Site.

Demolition-related activities resumed last week at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) on the Hanford Site.

EM and its cleanup contractor at WVDP commended workers for safely completing demolition of the first vitrification facility built in the U.S.

EM’s Moab UMTRA Project surpassed its fiscal 2018 target to ship uranium mill tailings from the Moab Site to a disposal cell.