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On the heels of the Summer Olympics, two Hanford Site contractors have finished a first-time relay of test glass while preparing for a giant leap forward in the cleanup mission.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth Site’s nearly 50 summer interns have a lot to share with their families about what they learned this year, but Drea Tannehill and Britton Kritzwiser can skip the history. That’s because they both are the third generation in their families to work at the site.

A group of 16 summer interns from colleges and universities throughout the United States this year joined the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, supporting communications, accounting, engineering, waste management and other organizations.
Thanks to a new training tool, workers at the Hanford Site are getting hands-on experience operating cranes, just on a smaller scale.

The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory recently hosted its annual community engagement event, where more than 1,700 area residents engaged with research conducted by the laboratory’s researchers, staff and graduate students on the Savannah River Site.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project recently notched an annual cleanup priority ahead of schedule for a second consecutive year

Last week, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders traveled to Japan to attend the two-day 8th International Forum on the Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to engage with nuclear cleanup experts from Japan, the U.S., U.K. and other countries.

Contractors at the Hanford Site recently led a site cleanup tour for up-and-coming community leaders who are part of the latest Leadership Tri-Cities (LTC) class.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is deploying drones for the first time to perform internal inspections of radioactive liquid waste tanks at the Savannah River Site.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (EM MSIPP) Success Through Academic Research Scholarship (STARS) Scholars have successfully concluded their first summer internship.