February 13, 2024

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High School Team Meets New Mexico Legislators at STEAM Day

Representatives with the EM Los Alamos Field Office legacy waste cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory joined students from the Native American Community Academy (NACA) of Albuquerque to promote STEAM Day at the New Mexico Legislature recently.

February 13, 2024

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Hanford Plant Installs Startup Heaters in Second Melter

EM crews at the Hanford Site's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently installed 18 temporary startup heaters, one of which is pictured, in the second of two melters in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility.

February 13, 2024

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Calloway County Middle School Advances to DOE National Science Bowl

Calloway County Middle School Team #1 on Friday won DOE’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl, an event recognized as the region’s most notable science competition for middle school students.

February 6, 2024

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EM Celebrates Milestone Year for Advancing Workforce in 2023

EM marked transformative accomplishments in fiscal year 2023, highlighting significant hiring and innovation advances, and a strengthened commitment to veteran employment and workforce diversity.

February 6, 2024

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Oak Ridge Transfers Largest Land Parcel Yet at East Tennessee Technology Park

The biggest land parcel transfer at East Tennessee Technology Park has just been completed. DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has transferred a 365-acre tract where a powerhouse complex was once located to the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee.

February 6, 2024

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Idaho Waste Treatment Facility Success Benefits DOE Nuclear Energy Mission

The commencement of radiological operations at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit was a pivotal success for EM last year. It also provided DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the Idaho National Laboratory a key to continued achievements as well.

February 6, 2024

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Footprint Continues Shrinking Near Former Hanford Processing Facility

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are demolishing a former chemical storage area near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the Hanford Site’s five former plutonium production facilities.

February 6, 2024

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West Valley Removes 40,000-Pound Tank for Main Plant Demolition

EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed the largest of nine tanks from a liquid waste cell as part of the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.

February 6, 2024

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Kentucky's Calloway County High School Advances to National Science Bowl

Calloway County High School Team #1 won this year’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl on Friday, culminating months of planning by volunteers and coaches for an event touted as the region’s most prominent science competition for high school students.

February 6, 2024

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West Valley Completes Demolition of Former Security Guardhouse

EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project safely demolished a former security guardhouse built in 1965, one of the first facilities constructed at the former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.