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Many opportunities exist to use robotics underwater, inside nuclear facilities, and underground to advance DOE’s cleanup work.
As it celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2018, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was a featured site at this year’s Waste Management Symposia.
EM & contractor officials last week highlighted progress with cleanup projects underway at the former Portsmouth and Paducah gaseous diffusion plants.
Hanford's WTP is on track to vitrify tank waste as soon as December 2021, Brian Vance, manager of the EM Office of River Protection, said last week.
Tele-operated robotic arms and manipulators could provide key advances in glove box and hot cell design and operations.
EM and contractor officials discussed here last week the path forward for WIPP following the resumption of waste shipments to the facility.
As part of EM's commitment to more timely decision-making, work is underway to identify ways to accelerate the competing & award of cleanup contracts.
A wide range of robotics developed by universities and used in EM’s cleanup were on display at this year’s Waste Management Symposia.
Workers recently completed construction of a mixed low-level waste disposal cell at NNSS to support environmental cleanup in Nevada and across the US.
Process advancements at SRS’s K Area have increased efficiency, reducing the time needed to complete an annual safety evaluation by half.