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More than 1,000 students gathered last week for a local school system’s annual career day, joining the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and nearly 60 other companies and organizations from across the region.
The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) recently participated in a county-wide job shadow day, giving high school juniors and seniors a glimpse into available science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) roles on Savannah River Site once they graduate.
EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) reached a major milestone last week — 25 years of operations at the nation’s only deep, underground geological repository for disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste.
EM’s Portsmouth Site has finished excavating approximately seven acres for its On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF) to prepare for debris from the demolition of X-333, a former uranium enrichment process building measuring more than 50 acres of floor area.
Recent completion of a project at the Hanford Site marked a significant accomplishment, as crews from EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) loaded and shipped 15 drums of sodium waste from the site’s former research reactors for offsite treatment.
Innovation fueled the creation of a new tool at EM's Savannah River Site (SRS) that helps ensure equipment being lowered into an underground liquid waste tank does not encounter any interferences.
The Hanford Fire Department is using prescribed burns at the 580-square-mile EM cleanup site to reduce wildfire risks in the late spring and summer.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR recently completed an extensive piping replacement project to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations (LGWO) system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently held its first-ever DOE Regional Science Bowl, joining what has become a yearly tradition across the complex for EM sites such as Savannah River, Portsmouth and Paducah.
Efforts to retain and recruit skilled construction trade workers took a major step forward with the signing of a project labor agreement between Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor UCOR and North America’s Building Trades Unions.