Crews with EM Hanford Site contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently removed a large glove box from the 231-Z Building, a critical step to prepare one of the site’s oldest facilities for demolition.
EM's Hanford Site’s tour program had more than 750 guests visit the site in 2023. The tours offer elected leaders, stakeholders and community members an opportunity to get a firsthand look at the historic cleanup progress underway.
EM racked up eight of the Secretary’s Honor Awards for 2023, with DOE recognizing two employees at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for excellence and six teams from the Idaho, Hanford, Portsmouth and Oak Ridge sites for achievements.
A facility with a critical role in the Hanford Site tank waste cleanup mission is gearing up to restart operations after a series of upgrades and repairs.
EM crews at the Hanford Site's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently installed 18 temporary startup heaters, one of which is pictured, in the second of two melters in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility.
Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are demolishing a former chemical storage area near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the Hanford Site’s five former plutonium production facilities.
The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) have completed the first waste processing campaign through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System at the Hanford Site.
Two EM sites are among the recipients of grants totaling more than $104 million for 31 projects across the country to support energy conservation measures, saving taxpayers $29 million in the first year of operations and drastically reducing the federal carbon footprint.
Teams of engineering students from Oregon State University (OSU) and Washington State University (WSU) recently partnered with engineers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for their senior projects.
EM has released its program priorities for calendar year (CY) 2024, covering key cleanup actions, project construction, acquisition and other important activities that will further EM’s environmental mission.