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During a 30-day public comment period, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Hanford Field Office hosted its annual Hanford Site 5-Year Plan public meeting.

When Helene roared across the Savannah River Site in late September, its Category 1 hurricane-strength wind gusts blew down timber from one side of the site to the other and across many of the primary and secondary roads onsite.

Construction crews recently installed a crane inside the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's High-Level Waste Facility.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has had one of its unused stainless steel canisters become a learning tool at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina.

Crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently completed the single largest demolition project in Idaho Cleanup Project history three months ahead of schedule and under budget.

The numbers are in, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management shipped the largest volume of its transuranic waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site in a decade during the past fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

In honor of Veterans Day on Nov. 11, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is highlighting veterans who have transitioned from the military to civilian service in the cleanup program.

The team at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recently began renovating a critical piece of the underground repository’s infrastructure, mobilizing more than 2,100 feet below the Earth’s surface to overhaul a mammoth steel-framed bin known as the “salt pocket.”

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has completed 75% of the Main Plant Process Building demolition at the West Valley Demonstration Project as its cleanup contractor at the site exceeds 1 million work hours without a lost-time illness or injury since April last year.

The Paducah Site is continuing its commitment to safety and security by bolstering collaboration with local law enforcement.