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EM management, Integrated Waste Treatment Unit employees and others signed the first stainless steel canister prior to crews filling it with sodium-bearing waste and simulant. Once filled, that canister and 15 others were placed in a concrete vault for storage.

May 16, 2023

Idaho Waste Treatment Facility Increases Production Fivefold

Since the launch of operations just over a month ago, the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) has increased sodium-bearing waste treatment fivefold, a crucial step in removing remaining liquid waste from nearby underground tanks.

From left, John Navarro, Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities Career Center, Sandra Haynes, WSU Tri-Cities chancellor, WSU Career Center staff, John Eschenberg, Central Plateau Cleanup Company president and CEO, and Wes Bryan, Washington River Protection Solutions president and project manager, cut a ribbon at the new WSU Tri-Cities Career Center.

May 16, 2023

Hanford Collaborations: Creating Connections With the Next Generation

Highlighting pathways to careers on the Hanford Site, EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) established creative collaborations with local colleges and universities.

Aiken High School’s M’Aiken Magic team, sponsored by EM contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, competed in a robotics world-championship competition in Houston, Texas. The M’Aiken Magic robot is pictured at left.

May 16, 2023

Savannah River Site-Sponsored Robotics Team Makes Inroads at International Competition

An EM contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) once again sponsored a team from Aiken High School to join an international robotics championship competition.

This image of the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant demonstrates how a 3D laser scanning tool is used to capture the layout of facilities being prepared for demolition.

May 16, 2023

Hanford Uses 3D Scanning to Enhance Worker Safety for Demolitions

A team of designers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is using 3D laser scanning technology to gather data to help workers prepare some of the facilities on the Hanford Site for demolition.

The first major shipment of depleted uranium oxide for disposal departed EM’s Paducah Site in Kentucky recently and arrived safely a few days later at its destination in Texas.

May 9, 2023

Portsmouth, Paducah Kick Off Major Uranium Oxide Disposal Effort

EM has successfully commenced a major disposal effort for a key uranium-enrichment byproduct with the recent arrival of 60 uranium-oxide storage cylinders by rail at a licensed facility in west Texas.

For the first time in 26 years, EM crews performed sampling of gases produced as byproducts at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This work could not occur until new piping and safety features were installed at the facility. They have performed five samples since December.

May 9, 2023

Oak Ridge Makes Former Reactor Safer as It Awaits Demolition

EM crews are slated to take down hundreds of old, contaminated buildings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex.

More than 70 volunteers with the local EM office and Hanford Site contractors joined forces to fill dozens of trash bags with litter during a One Hanford Earth Day cleanup event at a park in Richland, Washington.

May 9, 2023

Hanford Contractors Celebrate Earth Day Cleaning Up Local Park

Protecting the environment is key for EM’s Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office, and that’s why dozens of Hanford Site employees joined forces to celebrate the importance of Earth Day by cleaning up one of the most popular local parks

University of Georgia students pause for a photo as they participate in a prescribed burn of land at the Savannah River Site.

May 9, 2023

In Unique Fire Ecology Course, Students Practice Prescribed Burn at Savannah River Site

Sixteen students from the University of Georgia have completed a popular spring semester course on fire ecology that included a prescribed burn of 375 acres of land at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

With support from EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), students from local high schools recently joined a competition based on environmental topics, with this year’s special focus on adapting to climate change.

May 9, 2023

West Valley Supports Local Environmental Competition for Students

With support from EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), students from local high schools recently joined a competition based on environmental topics, with this year’s special focus on adapting to climate change.

Heritage Academy student Derek Webb uses a dichotomist key to identify an aquatic specimen caught in a Savannah River Site streambed.

May 9, 2023

STEP Class Brings Science to Life at Savannah River Site

More than 50 fifth and sixth grade students from a school in Augusta, Georgia, recently experienced a unique hands-on environmental class in the forests of the Savannah River Site (SRS) to inspire early interest in science, technology, engineering and mat

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