March 21, 2023
Idaho Site Safely Completes Fuel Transfer, Meeting EM’s Commitment to State
Checking off an EM 2023 priority, crews retrieved the last spent nuclear fuel from a water-filled basin and safely transferred possession of the fuel elements to a complex at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
March 21, 2023
EM Nevada Removes Insulation Material From Tanks to Prepare Them for Demolition
The EM Nevada Program has finished removing an insulation material known as perlite from four tanks at Test Cell C (TCC) on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
March 21, 2023
SRS Completes First Transfer in Accelerated Basin De-inventory Mission
The EM program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has successfully transferred the initial discard of uranium solution in its new Accelerated Basin De-inventory (ABD) mission.
March 21, 2023
EM Hosts Japanese Officials Visiting DOE Headquarters, Hanford Site
Representatives from the Japan Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) visited EM headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the Hanford Site in Washington state last week
March 21, 2023
An Oak Ridge First: Crews Access Cleanup Area From Barge
Cleanup projects for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) can be challenging under normal circumstances, but a recent excavation effort involved another level of complexity for contractor UCOR.
March 21, 2023
WTP Contractor Earns More Than 80% of Award Fee at Hanford Site
EM’s Office of River Protection awarded Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) approximately $6.5 million, or about 83% of the available fee, for work performed in calendar year 2022 at the Hanford Site.
March 21, 2023
Pursuing Unique Skills to Rewind Cold War Motors at Savannah River Site
Maintaining safety systems at a 70-year-old DOE site can pose challenges, but the motor shop for the EM program at Savannah River Site (SRS) has successfully addressed them.
March 21, 2023
West Valley Workers Safely Remove Chemical Process Cell Shield Windows
EM and prime contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) recently removed three shield windows that together weigh more than 75,000 pounds from a former cell in the Main Plant Process Building.
March 21, 2023
One Hanford Contractors Collaborate on Emissions Sampling
Hanford Site contractors from the EM Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office recently shared valuable experiences with one another regarding sampling emissions from site exhaust stacks.
March 21, 2023
Dozens of Canine Teams Converge on Savannah River Site for Certification Trials
The award-winning Savannah River Site (SRS) Canine Program recently helped host 41 teams from South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina as they participated in annual trials of the nation’s oldest and largest police K-9 organization.