For the first time, camera-mounted drones recently hovered, dipped, and glided above EM’s remediated waste sites at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to ensure the structural integrity of the protective covers over them.
EM’s Los Alamos Field Office and its cleanup contractor N3B hosted a virtual meeting last week with stakeholders to discuss progress.
EM continues to make progress on its 2020 priorities. EM Update is highlighting accomplishments in EM’s priority groups through the end of this year.
Additional air monitoring stations are being installed that will enhance environmental and radiological data collection during demolition.
It’s been 25 years since EM, the state of Idaho, and U.S. Navy signed a landmark agreement providing timelines for offsite transuranic waste shipments
The EM Nevada Program recently completed environmental corrective actions at 70 sites.
EM workers are set to soon begin transferring spent nuclear fuel from an underwater basin to a dry storage area at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory.
AIKEN, S.C. – On March 2, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State, and DOE cleanup project management and staff from the DOE sites in EPA Region 4 — Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Savannah River Site — met at the Savannah River Site (SRS) at ...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – DOE has successfully cleaned up the Idaho Site’s legacy waste for the last 25 years, protecting the primary drinking and irrigation water source for more than 300,000 Idahoans in compliance with an agreement with the state.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for cleanup of Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) in Ventura County, Calif.