The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has met its goal to complete eight shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for permanent disposal this fiscal year ending Sept. 30, further reducing its inventory of the material. September 23, 2025
In spring of 2022, employees with a Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management team saw the final shipment of a specific type of container holding transuranic waste leave the Savannah River Site in a TRUPACT-III shipping package. September 2, 2025
Department of Energy Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory completed its 200th shipment of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for safe disposal. August 19, 2025
Drawing from an innovative technology, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have achieved a breakthrough set to eliminate a complex legacy waste stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the past 50 years. August 12, 2025
Teams from the offices of Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy recently collaborated on a demonstration of new equipment to seal spent nuclear fuel into a safe, transportable “road ready” system for future shipment out of Idaho. July 15, 2025
Crews with the Idaho Cleanup Project successfully completed the first of many modifications to a legacy facility to get spent nuclear fuel “road ready” for future shipment out of state. July 8, 2025
EM Los Alamos Field Office has reached a significant stage in a key project for the legacy cleanup mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory by beginning offsite shipments of transuranic waste from previously buried corrugated metal pipes for permanent disposal. June 10, 2025
Just over 400 legacy transuranic waste containers remain at the Savannah River Site after workers there have sent more than 35,000 of them to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for disposal since the underground repository opened in 1999.
Gone from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is legacy radioactive waste that had been stored there for more than 50 years, thanks to continued cleanup progress from the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews have met a notable milestone in the cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project by safely completing 32 shipments containing nearly 1.9 million pounds of legacy waste.