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More than 40 engineers from the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) recently volunteered at 13 schools for DiscoverE Engineering’s National Engineers Week.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have initiated the second phase of construction for the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF).
EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site has partnered with an Idaho Falls-based small business through DOE’s Mentor-Protégé Program.

EM construction crews at the Hanford Site are laying it on the line — literally — to expand the treatment capacity of the site’s already robust groundwater cleanup program.

Each March, EM takes an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women across the DOE complex.

EM crews recently completed a virtual inspection of an underground tank that once stored liquid waste from spent fuel reprocessing operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Rachelle Hubler has made a career supporting EM’s cleanup contractors at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), where she has been a driving force behind the facility’s success for 22 years.

An employee with EM Hanford Site 222-S Laboratory contractor Navarro-ATL recently encountered a chemical that required removal from the site by the local explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit after the chemical was placed in a safe configuration.

EM team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for teardown in the near future.

Plans to replace diesel-generated steam with electrically generated steam at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are getting a funding boost from a recent $5 million DOE Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Program grant.