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The Women Leaders in Nuclear Panel at the 2024 Waste Management Symposia last week took a different approach than previous years by featuring a keynote speaker from outside the nuclear industry
As EM continues to advance the legacy cleanup mission underway at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a key focus is instilling a strong culture of operational excellence and effective communication, EM and contractor representatives said here last week.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF), an important new step in optimizing waste processing.
Public tours are set to resume this month for a limited time at the Hanford Site’s B Reactor National Historical Park, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which also includes facilities in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Future scientists, engineers and mathematicians recently put their knowledge to the test during the annual DOE Savannah River Regional Science Bowl Competition, which attracted nine teams from South Carolina and the greater Augusta, Georgia, area.
In the half century since the inception of the Waste Management Symposia, many EM sites have come full circle, cleaned and transformed into wildlife refuges, wetland preserves and national parks, U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk remarked in a prerecorded video message to the audience at the annual conference.
You may have seen the movie about Oppenheimer but how much Manhattan Project history do you really know? Are you up for a challenge to find out?
EM leadership met with members of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce.
Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology, hosted the fiscal year 2026 Hanford Site Cleanup Priorities public briefing on March 6 at the Richland Public Library.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is educating workers on everyday workplace hazards with a hands-on, peer-led mobile field course.