Over the past 24 years and spanning three liquid waste contractors, EM’s construction team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has achieved 35 million safe hours without injury resulting in a missed day of work.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently installed a hydraulic shear system, a major step toward remediating transuranic (TRU) waste contained in large, corrugated metal pipes buried underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1986.
Improving processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste are vital to the Hanford Site cleanup mission.
Workers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) have completed critical testing of the exhaust treatment system, or offgas system, in the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility.
Engineers from EM contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) have successfully reduced degreasing solvents beneath the Savannah River Site (SRS), using a technology that injects a form of iron and oil into groundwater.
The EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) have appointed a new chief of Hanford Patrol, carrying on a tradition of experienced leadership for the protective force that safeguards the Hanford Site.
More than 100 people attended a May 17 public meeting on the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) proposed onsite disposal facility.
EM is improving operational reliability through critical infrastructure replacement at a Savannah River Site (SRS) tank farm.
EM and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) leaders during a base camp visit last week thanked firefighters and were briefed on efforts to control a wildfire that has been burning in the vicinity of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Hanford Site crews recently completed the first transfer of test water from the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) to the nearby Liquid Effluent Retention Facility (LERF).