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The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractors recorded another successful year by completing all of their 2024 priorities and reaching an ambitious milestone decades in the making.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews at the Idaho Cleanup Project have benefited from collaboration, proper planning, and effective communication to advance toward completing a major construction project at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit.
Workers with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently completed comprehensive testing of new components at the Hanford Site’s Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management recently awarded performance-based fee payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex.
Crews at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility recently completed the final test of key safety systems, demonstrating that the facility’s emissions treatment system can remain functional, even during an emergency loss of power.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory Site is using a drone and other visual technologies to benefit cleanup, enhance communications with the public on technical subjects and more effectively document progress.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently conducted a multi-agency emergency response exercise involving a thundersnow scenario at its Crescent Junction disposal cell site.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have finished fieldwork and begun monitoring groundwater elevations for a study at the Environmental Management Disposal Facility site.
The Idaho Cleanup Project has improved transuranic waste operations to address waste inventory challenges, ensure shipments remain compliant with safety standards and meet commitments to the state of Idaho.
Idaho Cleanup Project crews have achieved a significant priority set by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management by treating 100,000 cumulative gallons of radioactive sodium-bearing tank waste at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit this year.