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EM’s ORP and its tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently installed a pump inside a large underground waste storage tank that is integral to a program that will treat the Hanford Site’s tank waste.
EM contractor employees have creatively changed how they monitor the recently closed HB Line facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS), using existing resources and saving approximately $1.8 million annually.
Deactivation workers at EM’s Paducah Site recently completed major modifications to the fire sprinkler system in one of the former gaseous diffusion plant’s four massive uranium-enrichment process buildings.
Workers will soon remove solar-power “plugs” from 19 soil remediation sites at the Savannah River Site (SRS), creating an annual cost savings of $90,000 as the successful soil and groundwater cleanup project comes to an end.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently resumed key risk-reduction activities to prepare to remove contaminated soil under Hanford’s 324 Building.
EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are setting the stage to accelerate the removal and disposal of plutonium from South Carolina.
A donation by the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s primary contractor is helping students at New Mexico State University’s Carlsbad campus prepare for an intriguing future in the technology and manufacturing sectors.
EM crews have completed demolition on a contaminated 1960s-era building at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), opening land that DOE can reuse for future missions.
An EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor team has finished creating almost 5,500 step-by-step procedures required for operation of Waste Treatment and WTP systems and facilities needed for Hanford’s DFLAW approach to tank waste treatment.
Physical progress is visible at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) as EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) moves closer to treating millions of gallons of Hanford Site tank waste.