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Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR and the Metal Trades worked with Roane State Community College to offer a chemical engineering technology program. Levi Trentham is one of the program participants who has benefited from the effort and now supports environmental cleanup in Oak Ridge. He is pictured here in a PBS series that highlighted the successful labor-industry partnership of UCOR and the Metal Trades.

September 21, 2021

Oak Ridge Contractor Teams With Skilled Labor to Build Workforce

Recruiting the next generation of organized labor in the skilled trades is vital to EM’s important mission.

A worker 40 feet in the air secures the top of a precast concrete panel at the Salt Reduction Building (SRB), part of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System. The large hole in the corner support wall is where prefiltered air from the SRB will move on to the system’s high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in the New Filter Building.

September 21, 2021

WIPP Forges Ahead With Construction of Key Building for Ventilation System

One of two major buildings for a modern air supply system designed to improve air quality for workers in the underground at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is quickly going vertical.

Glass frit like this will be used in the process of heating up the first melter inside the Low-Activity Waste Facility at the Hanford Site. The frit is provided through a contract with Fluids Controls and Components Inc. of Richland, Washington, and mimics waste by dissolving into a solid form at high temperatures to assist during the melter heatup process.

September 21, 2021

‘Frit’ a Critical Ingredient in Hanford’s Melter Heatup Recipe

A material resembling small glass beads will serve as a critical ingredient to heating up the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) set for later this year.

Crews at Savannah River Remediation successfully double-stacked the first canisters in an underground vault in the Glass Waste Storage Building 2 at the Savannah River Site using the shielded canister transporter.

September 21, 2021

SRS Expands Canister Double-Stacking to Second Building

EM has demonstrated the capability to expand double-stacking high-level waste canisters at the Savannah River Site (SRS), an approach that saves the cleanup program more than $100 million.

Workers at the West Valley Demonstration Project safely remove a section of a concrete shield wall as part of modifications to a former waste storage facility. A new rollup door will be installed in the opening. This facility will support waste operations during the future demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

September 21, 2021

West Valley Repurposes Facility to Support Main Plant Demolition

The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is altering a former storage facility for use in processing waste during the demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

An aerial view of the Engine Maintenance, Assembly, and Disassembly (EMAD) complex on the Nevada National Security Site. The EM Nevada Program is preparing to demolish and close the EMAD and Test Cell C complexes.

September 14, 2021

EM Nevada Prepares for Demolition, Closure of Two Key Facilities

The EM Nevada Program and its environmental program services contractor, Navarro Research and Engineering, have initiated characterization and hazard reduction activities to prepare for upcoming demolition and closure work.

At EM’s Savannah River Site, U.S. Forest Service employees Secunda Hughes, left, a civil engineering technician, and Andrew Thompson, a forester, inspect irrigation piping and sprinkler heads, part of a 62-acre pine plantation used to safely disperse tritium into the atmosphere and away from local waterways.

September 14, 2021

Tree Plantation Helps SRS Steer Contaminants Away From Waterways

Scientists in the EM program are using a 62-acre plantation of pine trees and other natural resources to greatly limit radioactively contaminated groundwater from reaching waterways on the Savannah River Site (SRS).

Workers ready a hanging bucket for a helicopter used to drop native grass and shrub seed on the Hanford Site after a fire destroyed 5,500 acres of critical habitat in June 2020.

September 14, 2021

New Growth Following Fire Devastation at Hanford’s Gable Mountain Area

With help from Hanford Site employees, a large area of the site with cultural significance to tribal nations in the Northwest is making a comeback after a wildfire caused by lightning in June 2020

Paducah Site worker Brandon Hayden signals a crane operator to lower a motor from the C-333 Process Building’s cell floor to the truck alley for removal. The work was done to support the future construction of a material sizing area in the building, which will be used to downsize large components for disposal.

September 14, 2021

More Than 30 Years of Environmental Cleanup at Paducah Adds Up

Since the inception of the EM program in 1989, the Paducah Site has made notable achievements in groundwater cleanup, waste removal, and other work advancing its environmental cleanup mission following more than 60 years of uranium enrichment operations.

Workers remove waste from Alpha-2 as part of deactivation work at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.

September 14, 2021

Oak Ridge Prepares Next Batch of Buildings for Demolition

EM is preparing the next wave of buildings for demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex as part of a new chapter of cleanup in Oak Ridge.

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