
The Department released a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new Hanford Site Occupational Medical Services contract to provide continued occupational medical services to federal and contractor employees at the Hanford Site, located near Richland, WA.

Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, National Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.

Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Site’s K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition.

Concrete blocks are loaded onto a metal base and transporter during tests on a gantry crane system that will lift replacement melters for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site.

EM Richland Operations Office contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently removed two large tanks near the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) on the Hanford Site to make way for future wastewater treatment at the ETF.

An aerial view of the Effluent Treatment Facility on the Hanford Site, where workers are completing the final upgrades needed for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program to treat tank waste.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) continues to make significant progress developing the equipment, tools and techniques to safely transfer nearly 2,000 radioactive cesium and strontium capsules.

Identifying, training & readying the next-generation workforce is important to the continued long-term success of sites across the EM complex, and a contractor at the Hanford Site continues to invest in programs to support this initiative

DOE recently bestowed eight EM teams with the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award, recognizing projects at the Idaho, Savannah River and Hanford sites as well as a group of employees who revamped and expanded EM’s Minority Serving Institutions.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) recently took another step in reducing environmental risk at the Hanford Site, as workers began retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from the fourth & final underground single-shell storage tank in the AX Farm.