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The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are performing extensive upgrades designed to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations (LGWO) facilities.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a two-year, $36 million subcontract to provide landfill management, operations, inspection and maintenance services for the Integrated Disposal Facility.
A recent double-digit increase of transuranic waste shipments for permanent disposal at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) led to a successful seven-week stretch that has officials at the facility feeling confident.
Multiple winter storms gripping the Rocky Mountains created a perfect storm of sorts at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently as several trucks and tractor-trailers used for waste shipments were idled for days until conditions were safe.
EM has selected Reinhard Knerr, manager of the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO), to serve as deputy manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Kentucky, effective Jan. 29.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) worked together recently at the Hanford Site to dig up five spent fuel containers from former plutonium production.
Much of the nation experienced an extreme cold snap over the recent holidays, and Tennessee was no exception with temperatures dipping to nearly zero degrees in Oak Ridge.
Mark your calendars for the ninth-annual National Cleanup Workshop set for Sept. 11-13 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.
Crews recently performed a second run using water to test for receiving sodium hydroxide at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) on the Hanford Site.
EM awarded the security services contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, to the Centerra Group of Herndon, Virginia, a single-member limited liability company and the current incumbent contractor.