March 5, 2024

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Paducah Site Celebrates Women’s Contributions in New Video

Each March, EM takes an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women across the DOE complex.

March 5, 2024

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West Valley Employs Video Technology to Improve Waste Tank Inspection

EM crews recently completed a virtual inspection of an underground tank that once stored liquid waste from spent fuel reprocessing operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project in the 1960s and ‘70s.

March 5, 2024

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Hubler Excels in Role Critical to Reducing Waste Footprint at Idaho Site

Rachelle Hubler has made a career supporting EM’s cleanup contractors at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), where she has been a driving force behind the facility’s success for 22 years.

March 5, 2024

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Hanford Contractor Applauded for Action to Dispose of Potentially Hazardous Chemical

An employee with EM Hanford Site 222-S Laboratory contractor Navarro-ATL recently encountered a chemical that required removal from the site by the local explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit after the chemical was placed in a safe configuration.

March 5, 2024

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Oak Ridge Readies for Next Demolition Project at ORNL

EM team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for teardown in the near future.

March 5, 2024

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Hanford Wins Grant to Add Energy-efficient Steam Plant at Waste Treatment Plant

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.

March 5, 2024

Waste Treatment Plant Contractor at Hanford Earns 92% of Available Fee in 2023

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.

February 27, 2024

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Robust Sampling, Monitoring Drives Legacy Waste Cleanup at LANL

EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) crews collected more than 8,670 soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater samples in 2023.

February 27, 2024

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Hanford’s Renovated Wastewater Load-in Station Reopens for Business

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.

February 27, 2024

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Idaho Demolition Project Reaches Toward Recycling, Sustainability Goals

EM is achieving its environmental and sustainability goals as it demolishes two legacy nuclear reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.