EM News Archive

The wild lands of the Savannah River Site (SRS) have served as a front line in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s fight to eradicate rabies.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a Request for Information Sources Sought notice for operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

EM is further strengthening its procurement capabilities in launching an Acquisition Corps to serve on Acquisition Integrated Project Teams.

On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion occurred more than 200 miles south of Los Alamos in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The Manhattan Project was an unprecedented, top-secret research and development program created during World War II to develop an atomic weapon.

The atomic age began in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, with the Trinity Test — the culmination of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

A team from the Savannah River Site that completed cleanup of coal ash-contaminated land a year early and at a savings of more than $8 million

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractor UCOR are preparing to demolish the remaining structures associated with Building 3026.

The EM Savannah River Site (SRS) landscape is changing again as Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 8 cell construction work is underway.

New digital systems have significantly upgraded waste tank operations at the Hanford Site.

The EM program has added two portable units to its network of 14 permanent air monitoring stations at the Savannah River Site.

West Valley Demonstration Project recently enhanced its security and safety by purchasing digital trunked radios that can assign frequency channels.

A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations has been removed.

The Hanford Site continues a phased remobilization of site operations

EM contractors at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Savannah River Sitewere recently awarded Star status for safety and health advances.

EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently partnered with Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) to perform transfers of spent nuclear fuel.

EM crews have demolished two small structures formerly used to measure the flow of hazardous wastewater and obtain sample data.

EM Hanford tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions is preparing to retrieve radioactive and chemical waste from storage tanks

An EM deactivation and demolition crew at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently encapsulated a concrete slab with a fixative.

Upgrades and construction are progressing at Building 2026.

An advance agenda is now available for the 2020 National Cleanup Workshop that will bring together top Department of Energy officials.

Today, the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management awarded a set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts.

Workers recently finished start-up testing at the Analytical Laboratory in Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

Work crews at the Energy Technology Engineering Center are mobilizing for demolition of 10 buildings at the former nuclear and liquid metals site.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $10.4 million for its performance from October 2019 through March 2020.