Six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites are among a group of award winners who collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions last year by more than 565,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which equates to taking 121,000 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.
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.
At the end of last year, EM leaders William “Ike” White and Jeff Avery traveled West to visit nuclear legacy sites.
U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk and other DOE leaders joined community members and other stakeholders last week to mark the attainment of an EM 2023 priority at the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project earlier this year.
Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project successfully relocating another 1 million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 14 million tons permanently disposed.
DOE has awarded EM's Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project the coveted Superior GreenBuy Award, honoring the site’s efforts to reduce its footprint through environmentally friendly acquisitions over the past five years.
Eight EM sites have been honored with the 2023 Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Purchaser Award, the most the cleanup program has won in a year since the program honoring purchases of sustainable goods began in 2015.
A delegation of stakeholders in the cleanup program from Moab, Utah met with EM leadership last week to discuss the future of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project.
A workshop to identify and prioritize key research and technology needs in developing long-term monitoring for groundwater contamination was held at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) recently.
EM’s Moab UMTRA Project recently accomplished an EM 2022 priority by successfully relocating another million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 13 million tons permanently disposed.