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With the successful cleanup underway at the Oak Ridge Reservation serving as a “North Star,” the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is entering into a “unique moment”.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has the potential to play an important role in the “nuclear renaissance” underway in the United States, senior EM leaders said.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is preparing to remove a building slab at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
After successfully completing their mission in one of the largest demolition projects in Idaho National Laboratory Site history, members of the Idaho Cleanup Project workforce are being trained for other cleanup work at the site.
Sometimes major cleanup projects require some, well, post-cleanup cleanup.
X-330, the last of three former uranium enrichment process buildings set for demolition at the Portsmouth Site, received a new roof to prepare the building for deactivation, a necessary step before its teardown.

The Savannah River Site recently acquired a new state-of-the-art electrofishing boat to bolster sampling efforts as part of work to survey the effects of its operations on people and natural resources surrounding the site.

An Idaho Cleanup Project contractor has provided funding to 15 classrooms in southeastern Idaho to support local educators and encourage the next generation of workers to pursue technical careers.

Researchers at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory studied water movement in wetlands and its role in filtering contaminants in the Tims Branch watershed, a riparian wetland on the Savannah River Site.

he Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently received more than 3,500 gallons of sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye.