EM News Archive

EM has marked the successful demolition of four buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) since July 21.

EM has named Brian Vance as manager, on a permanent basis, of the two offices that supervise cleanup of the Hanford Site.

Workers at the EM West Valley Demonstration Project began demolishing a former utility building this month.

A team at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently held a drill considered an important first step in building an emergency plan.

Before and after views: the landscape around EM’s Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

Millions of dollars in new and old infrastructure needs protecting at the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

Savannah River Site employees completed equipment tests virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 National Cleanup Workshop is being revamped to be a virtual workshop on Sept. 16, 2020.

DOE has resumed active environmental cleanup at the ETEC, a former nuclear and liquid metals research site in Ventura County, California.

Work crews have begun demolishing a set of Department of Energy-owned buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center.

Workers recently finished removing contaminated soil under a section of the former Building K-25 footprint in another major action

Workers at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently completed startup testing on another significant plant system.

EM recently surpassed a project milestone to clean 20 gloveboxes and radiohoods in the Savannah River National Laboratory.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lone Pine, California recently prompted rapid notifications from the EM Nevada Program.

DOE cleanup agreements with the state of Idaho require EM to ship nuclear waste for disposal

EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site used creativity to complete a critical equipment test.

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.