The EM Nevada Program recently hosted its first-ever virtual field trip, highlighting for nearly 200 students its safe, secure, and successful groundwater mission at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
An EM project team recently completed upgrades to a waste tank at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to ready it for dissolving waste for treatment through Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR).
EM crews are preparing to deactivate the former Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor (EGCR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) before removing the contaminated facility and opening the DOE land for reuse.
An EM team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has finished safely removing sediment from a key component of a basin used to store spent nuclear fuel from former production reactors, and from foreign and domestic research reactor programs.
Land at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) is already being put to beneficial reuse and providing new economic opportunities for the community.
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is evaluating new robotic technology that could further improve worker safety at the Hanford Site.
EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently used underwater cameras for the first time to complete examinations.
A $5 million grant that DOE recently awarded to a local nonprofit will strengthen the workforce pool needed to support the EM and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) missions, particularly at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
Two EM programs recently collaborated to enhance an established radioactive waste inspection process, allowing for continued safe, secure, and compliant waste shipments from one DOE site to another.
Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR is awarding $30,000 in grants for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) projects to benefit 30 schools across a nine-county region.