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Engineers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are testing and programming robots that will help ensure the thousands of steel containers are safe for transport to the nearby Integrated Disposal Facility.
DOE recognized an EM team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) with its prestigious Project Management Excellence Award last week for successfully delivering a repository for radioactive grout eight months ahead of schedule and $32 million under budget.
EM’s Moab UMTRA Project recently accomplished an EM 2022 priority by successfully relocating another million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 13 million tons permanently disposed.
Jim Daffron, a 30-year Army veteran, traveled to Central America to help those hit by Hurricane Mitch and helped war-torn Iraq recover critical infrastructure.
Another year, another 2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater treated. It’s a repeat of last-year’s statistics, but a new chapter that illustrates continuous, consistent cleanup progress at the Hanford Site year after year.
EM recently completed the first-ever demolition of a reactor in the central campus area at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
In March 2019, Pochampally joined the EM Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP), where he worked on technologies to detect and inspect nuclear environments, as well as another project on water remediation.
An EM contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently carried out a plan to create a pipeline of skilled employees to help meet the needs of the cleanup program but also benefit private industries in the area.
EM crews employed a unique solution to safely close a 70-year-old well at the Savannah River Site (SRS), saving about $900,000.
EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently completed construction of a backup load-in station at the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) .