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As the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management addresses the legacy of the past, it has incredible opportunities to be part of what’s been dubbed Manhattan Project 2.0, a strong vision for the future focused on winning the global artificial intelligence race and ushering in a nuclear renaissance to fuel it, acting EM Assistant Secretary Joel Bradburne said in the keynote address at the 2025 National Cleanup Workshop.
Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative in South Carolina Set to Lead on AI, Energy, and Manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the signing of a lease with General Matter Inc for the reuse of a 100-acre parcel of federal land at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant for a new private-sector domestic uranium enrichment facility that is ushering in a new nuclear renaissance for the nation.
The Office of Environmental Management has safely completed the largest, most complex demolition of a radioactively contaminated facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project to date, achieving a 2025 priority for the cleanup program.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management successfully completed the majority of its 2024 priorities, advancing critical cleanup work with the support of state, tribal and local partners.
EM's accomplishments and more across the cleanup complex are chronicled in EM’s 2024 Year in Review.
DOE has selected NextEra Energy Resources Development LLC to enter realty negotiations for a carbon-pollution-free electricity generation project at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for qualifications related to the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative for utility-scale energy projects within the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site. Today’s announcement reinforces the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to leveraging federal properties to increase the deployment of clean power through the buildout of utility-scale clean energy projects.
DOE announced it will enter into realty negotiations with Hecate Energy LLC for a solar project capable of delivering up to one gigawatt of clean energy within an 8,000-acre area of DOE-owned land at the Hanford site as part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative.
Ameresco, Inc. selected as a second developer to enter lease negotiations for carbon pollution-free electricity generation project within the Savannah River Site as part of the Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative.