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Plans to replace diesel-generated steam with electrically generated steam at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are getting a funding boost from a recent $5 million DOE Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Program grant.
EM’s Office of River Protection awarded Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) approximately $9.5 million, or about 92%, of the available fee for work performed on the High-Level Waste (HLW) Facility last year.
EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) crews collected more than 8,670 soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater samples in 2023.
In an integral step toward preparing for tank waste treatment on the Hanford Site, the newly renovated load-in station at the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) recently reopened for business.
EM is achieving its environmental and sustainability goals as it demolishes two legacy nuclear reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
Developing more sustainable ways to perform work is a continuous focus on DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation. The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR made major contributions to help EM reach last year’s goal to bring at least 150 electric vehicles to the cleanup program’s fleet.
The award-winning Savannah River Site (SRS) Canine Program helped host 27 teams from South Carolina and North Carolina as they participated in annual trials of the nation’s oldest and largest police canine organization.
An EM team safely demolished a structure at West Valley Demonstration Project used during former spent nuclear fuel reprocessing operations as well as cleanup, including solidification of liquid high-level waste and deactivation of one of the last major facilities remaining at the site.
Forty engineers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently helped 1,484 area middle school students explore engineering with 72 hands-on activities.
Workers at the Hanford Site‘s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently poured test glass into four stainless steel containers inside the plant’s Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility. The pours help crews build proficiency for future tank waste treatment operations.