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Large construction vehicles work to demolish a building
Crews with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently removed a large steel bridge crane from the Chemical Process Cell Crane Room as part of the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
Two people give a handshake with a supportive crowd behind them
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) signed a $42 million agreement last week to complete work intended to restore natural resources from the impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) historic operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation.
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Six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites are among a group of award winners who collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions last year by more than 565,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which equates to taking 121,000 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.
An open field with dried brown grass and a demolished building frame is in the background. A black and white play button is in the middle of the photo
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews recently demolished another steel-framed, fabric-covered building at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex’s Subsurface Disposal Area at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. Just three buildings remain on the 97-acre Cold War-era landfill, following removal of this former waste storage building.
Control room personnel monitor systems.
Control room personnel monitor systems at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant after recently adding the first batch of “tuning feed” to one of the plant’s large melters.