EM News Archive

Temperatures often surge above 90 degrees during summer months at Oak Ridge, prompting the cleanup contractor to search for ways to keep workers safe.

Three quick-thinking Hanford Site workers were honored recently for saving the life of a coworker.

Following is EM Assistant Secretary Anne White’s keynote address to the 2018 Radwaste Summit on Sept. 4, as prepared for delivery.

DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visited the Portsmouth Site last week to learn more about EM’s cleanup.

EM Update recently spoke with EM Assistant Secretary Anne White about her early tenure as head of the DOE cleanup program and her vision for EM.

The 2017 Hurricane Response Team —comprised of hundreds of DOE employees & contractors— was honored with the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award.

EM’s SRNL and the USCA have agreed to create a collegiate affiliate program in which retired laboratory professionals enhance student learning.

Hundreds of college students and graduates arrived at sites across the DOE complex this summer for internships to gain hands-on job experience.

Employees at Oak Ridge’s TWPC received the DOE Voluntary Protection Program’s (VPP) distinguished Superior Star Award on Aug. 30.

Workers are re-purposing thousands of tons of asphalt milled up from decades-old roads to resurface well-traveled gravel site arteries.

Hanford cleanup contractor employee was recently named the Junior Achievement (JA) of Washington Southeastern Region’s 2017-18 Volunteer of the Year.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently toured the NNSS and addressed federal and contractor staff in an all-hands meeting.

Small businesses are crucial to EM's missions.

EM & the SRS management & operations contractor are using new engineering approaches to improve operations, increase efficiency & make the site safer.

No, Damon Horn is not the “Six-Million-Dollar Man.” He doesn’t even try to imitate actor Lee Majors’s 1970s science fiction TV character.

Robin Brigmon, a senior fellow engineer with EM's SRNL, continued more than a decade of advancing the state’s scientific community.

EM's ORP and WRPS go to great lengths to learn more about the nature and extent of contamination around and beneath Hanford’s waste storage tanks.

EM crews have demolished more than 200 facilities in the Hanford Site’s 300 Area that once used water utility services.

First-person account by EM Asst Secretary Anne White on her trip to Japan, attending the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on CivIl Nuclear Cooperation.

Employees recently gathered at Oak Ridge’s TWPC to celebrate completing a full year of shipments to EM’s WIPP.

Crews successfully removed a steel penthouse structure from atop the Vitrification Facility earlier this month at the WVDP site.

Hanford Site workers added a critical component to a training facility this month to eventually help remove radioactive soil.

EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory site is helping protect the environment, reduce energy costs, and save taxpayer funds.

EM’s Portsmouth Site recently rehabilitated 6 water wells, restoring them to the original design performance with substantially increased flow rates.

DOE Releases Request for Information/Sources Sought for the Nuclear Containment Ventilation Systems and Components Evaluation and Qualification Testin