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West Valley Demonstration Project officials met with representatives from the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management in Tennessee to share lessons learned from the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.
It won’t be long before the Integrated Disposal Facility is ready for its critical role in the mission to treat tank waste through the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program at the Hanford Site.
The Hanford Field Office and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions are working with a local business to create a full-scale mock-up for the next phase of liquid radioactive waste pretreatment.
Idaho Cleanup Project crews are preparing for the next stages of construction of a waste disposal facility expansion project following recent progress that includes completion of excavation for a new disposal cell and evaporation pond areas.
About 40 students from local rural high schools visited the Hanford Site’s Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center to learn about the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management mission and career opportunities in STEM fields at the site.
EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are now adding more capacity to store vitrified liquid waste, a significant federal cost-savings initiative at SRS.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have successfully reestablished full production capacity at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center.
EM workers at the Savannah River Site recently restored six portable tanks, helping preserve an essential site capability of transporting large quantities of radioactively contaminated or hazardous liquid solutions while creating cost savings.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management published a notice of intent in the Federal Register on Dec. 27 to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Hanford Site is a step closer to immobilizing radioactive liquid tank waste in glass for safe disposal.