DOE recently bestowed eight EM teams with the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award, recognizing projects at the Idaho, Savannah River and Hanford sites as well as a group of employees who revamped and expanded EM’s Minority Serving Institutions.
As crews ready a liquid waste treatment facility at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site for sodium-bearing waste processing, EM is preparing to construct a new building to provide additional capacity for the safe storage of treated waste material.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractors Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) worked together recently at the Hanford Site to dig up five spent fuel containers from former plutonium production.
Much of the nation experienced an extreme cold snap over the recent holidays, and Tennessee was no exception with temperatures dipping to nearly zero degrees in Oak Ridge.
Crews recently performed a second run using water to test for receiving sodium hydroxide at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) on the Hanford Site.
EM achieved the majority of its priorities for calendar year (CY) 2022, completing challenging work that demonstrates visible and effectual progress as the program focuses on some of its most difficult remaining challenges.
EM received a fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget of $8.3 billion, a 5% increase over the amount the cleanup program received for FY22.
As EM’s Paducah Site completed its first emergency exercise since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, construction crews broke ground on the new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to improve coordination and response to emergencies across the site.
Hanford Site crews recently completed testing on a transfer line communications system between the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) and the nearby tank farm, or large group of underground storage tanks, where pretreated waste is being stored
An EM project at the Idaho National Laboratory Site successfully obtained important mapping and radiological data in what is believed to be the world’s first piloted drone mission inside a high-level radioactive waste storage vault.