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The legacy of a pit that held radioactive and hazardous waste for 56 years at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site has ended.
Leadership from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) came together recently to exchange best practices for decommissioning facilities and a host of other cleanup topics.
Demolition is underway on several former chemical storage tanks and associated infrastructure as risk-reduction activities continue at a former plutonium processing facility at the Hanford Site.
A Hanford Site building that was critical to transferring radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River is coming down.
Employees with Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth (FBP), EM’s decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site, were recently treated to a luncheon, celebrating the completion of 4 million safe work hours.
The University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) and other collaborators have successfully released offspring of confiscated eastern box turtles at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
Representatives of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) and EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) were on hand last week to congratulate Dominic Montaño and Milnor Branch.
EM crews have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex scheduled for demolition next year.
Holly Flynn, a researcher at EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), will receive $2.5 million over five years to fund research associated with fusion energy after being selected as a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awardee.
At the Sellafield site on the coast of Cumbria, England, remotely operated submersible vehicles perform inspection and manipulation tasks in ponds where spent fuel is stored.