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Mark Gilbertson is retiring at the end of October after more than 40 years of private and public sector service, including more than 25 years in leadership positions in EM.
Record-breaking heat and the sheer size of the job could not stop the EM Office of River Protection and its tank operations contractor from safely completing a construction project critical to the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor Isotek successfully completed processing and disposing the low-dose inventory of uranium (U)-233 stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) this month.
As part of a continuing commitment to public involvement, EM leaders at the Hanford Site are engaging the public to help shape cleanup priorities in the site’s 5-Year Plan.
An EM team at Savannah River Site (SRS) has significantly improved the system for picking up, transporting, and processing excess materials and equipment for reuse, reducing the average number of days to complete such tasks from 45 to only a few.
EM joined other government organizations from the U.S., U.K., and Canada last week for a virtual exchange focused on lessons learned and best practices for stakeholder engagement.
EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project shipped more than 1 million tons of mill tailings for disposal in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the largest annual amount since fiscal 2012.
Mark Gilbertson is set to retire from federal service at the end of October following 40 years of public and private sector experience.
The EM Nevada Program’s environmental program services contractor has developed a new small-grants program to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programming at schools near the Nevada National Security Site.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office and its cleanup contractor have collected more than 3,100 soil samples and excavated more than 1,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil as they remediate land at the southernmost boundary of Los Alamos National Laboratory.