EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jeff Avery met with United Steelworkers (USW) members at their Fall 2023 Atomic Energy Workers Council Meeting in Arlington, Virginia.
EM is testing technologies and processes needed to help immobilize Hanford Site tank waste in glass through a process called vitrification.
Workers at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) have begun removing the first three of 18 temporary startup heaters.
Workers with the EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently finished extensive modifications at the Hanford Site's Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued the first Request for Information (RFI) related to the Department’s Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative focused on generating clean energy on DOE owned lands.
EM has partnered with Florida International University (FIU) to build DOE’s workforce while furthering the Hanford Site cleanup mission.
– EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) recently took a major step forward when the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) received a federal authorization.
Classified records from the start of the Manhattan Project arrived safely at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration near Washington, D.C.
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.