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Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connected.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is continuing to reduce risk around the Plutonium-Uranium Extraction Plant – better known as PUREX – on the Hanford Site.
Crews are in the homestretch of achieving an EM 2021 priority to complete demolition of all DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California.
EM awarded a former analytical services contractor nearly $149,000, or about 89% of the available award fee, for its work at the Hanford Site during a performance evaluation period of September 2020 to April 2021.
Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connected
A nonprofit that advocates for purchasing practices that improve the environment recently honored several EM sites and contractors for buying green products that are more energy efficient, less toxic, longer lasting, and easier to recycle.
With hopes for rain during monsoon season amid exceptional drought conditions, the EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently activated samplers at 183 monitoring sites that collect surface water.
Local contractor Two Rivers Terminal recently made its first delivery of materials that will be used to immobilize Hanford Site underground tank waste in glass for disposal to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
Workers at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recently reached a key milestone six weeks early by completing the foundation for a building critical to the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System, which will be the largest containment fan system.
Employees of Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), the maintenance and operations contractor for EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project, recently surpassed 1 million working hours without a recordable injury or lost-time accident.