EM crews are slated to take down hundreds of old, contaminated buildings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex.

Sixteen students from the University of Georgia have completed a popular spring semester course on fire ecology that included a prescribed burn of 375 acres of land at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
With support from EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), students from local high schools recently joined a competition based on environmental topics, with this year’s special focus on adapting to climate change.

More than 50 fifth and sixth grade students from a school in Augusta, Georgia, recently experienced a unique hands-on environmental class in the forests of the Savannah River Site (SRS) to inspire early interest in science, technology, engineering and mat

A recently delivered Security Inspectors Operation Area, seen here being moved into the main production area in K Area, will allow remote inspections of employees working on the surplus plutonium disposition mission at the Savannah River Site.

DOE announced funding opportunities last week totaling $24.5 million for minority serving institutions (MSI).

DOE released Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) number DE-FOA-0002820 for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) which will result in multiple financial assistance awards for the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).
Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Radiological Engineer Steven Goodrich demonstrates contamination screening using the VIZRAD Frisk simulator.
Just in time for Earth Day, DOE named EM’s Portsmouth Site and Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) as Green Fleet Award recipients last week for their exceptional efforts in ordering the most light-duty zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) in fiscal 2023.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Environmental Management (EM) Workforce Management Office is implementing recruitment efforts to fill more than 300 vacancies across the cleanup program.