Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites.
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership Technical Services Summer Intern Catherine Creekmore, center, applies what she is learning in her internship to characterize materials found in process gas equipment in the C-333 Process Building with Paducah Site workers.
EM and a contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished the cleanup of a discharge canal, a project that successfully completes environmental remediation of the Lower Three Runs stream system.
The Paducah Site and the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) have teamed up to produce a documentary video about EM’s groundwater cleanup program.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) recently marked the five-year anniversary of the first EM contract dedicated to legacy cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
An EM team led by Senior Advisor William “Ike” White recently traveled to France to visit the nuclear company Orano and Alternative Atomic Energies Commission (CEA) facilities, and meet with representatives with the French National Radioactive Waste Manag
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) released a report last week to inform the public of possible impacts from EM’s cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL).
Two EM organizations in Idaho are effectively working together to manage water at a Cold War-era facility at the (INL) Site to protect the underlying aquifer used by 300,000 Idaho residents for agriculture, drinking water and municipal usage.
EM released its Strategic Vision 2023-2033, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have shifted to soil and groundwater remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park in the homestretch of a cleanup that took down more than 500 aging, contaminated structures.