EM crews recently completed a virtual inspection of an underground tank that once stored liquid waste from spent fuel reprocessing operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project in the 1960s and ‘70s.
EM team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for teardown in the near future.
Developing more sustainable ways to perform work is a continuous focus on DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation. The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR made major contributions to help EM reach last year’s goal to bring at least 150 electric vehicles to the cleanup program’s fleet.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released final figures for 2023 that show Oak Ridge is maintaining its position as the national pacesetter for cleanup across the federal government.
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.
One of the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) highest priority cleanup projects has significantly contributed to the medical world.
The biggest land parcel transfer at East Tennessee Technology Park has just been completed. DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has transferred a 365-acre tract where a powerhouse complex was once located to the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee.
EM Senior Advisor William "Ike" White visit to Oak Ridge.
The biggest snowstorm in more than three decades here amid single-digit temperatures presented several challenges to EM’s operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation.
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.