Members of EM leadership recently visited Catholic University’s Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL), a contributor to key innovations in the vitrification technology central to Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in Washington state.
EM’s main contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) helped fund two centers for an area school district where students can stretch their imaginations while honing their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills.
Recruiting the next generation of organized labor in the skilled trades is vital to EM’s important mission.
Scientists in the EM program are using a 62-acre plantation of pine trees and other natural resources to greatly limit radioactively contaminated groundwater from reaching waterways on the Savannah River Site (SRS).
With help from Hanford Site employees, a large area of the site with cultural significance to tribal nations in the Northwest is making a comeback after a wildfire caused by lightning in June 2020
A group of students from Florida International University (FIU) will have quite a story to tell when asked to share what they did this summer.
The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team has completed startup testing of two melters and related support systems in the Low-Activity Waste Facility.
EM is treating record-setting amounts of waste and dispositioning more decontaminated salt solution at the Savannah River Site (SRS), as the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) proves to be an aggressive workhorse for the site’s liquid waste mission.
The Savannah River Site (SRS) has made significant progress in cleaning up contaminated groundwater from legacy nuclear operations near two chemical separations facilities.
Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connected.