RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) has given Bechtel National (BNI), the contractor for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), a positive assessment for its performance in 2016, according to a recently rele...
AIKEN, S.C. – EM has begun the critical task of connecting the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities earlier than planned, taking advantage of a system-wide outage prompted by the need to repla...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – A redesigned facility component operated successfully during recent testing, representing a key step in the commissioning of...
AIKEN, S.C. – EM is using robotic technology to perform remote radiological repairs to its Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities.
AIKEN, S.C. – EM’s Salt Waste Processing Facility is scheduled to begin operations in December 2018, with contractor Parsons getting support from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the site's management and operations contractor, and Savannah...
RICHLAND, Wash. – EM Office of River Protection contractor Bechtel National Inc. this month energized the Balance of Facilities (BOF) switchgear building, Building 91, one of the more than 20 structures that make up the Balance of Facilities at the W...
RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers at the Hanford Site's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) finished installing a caustic scrubber, beating an interim milestone by nearly two weeks.
PHOENIX – Senior federal and contractor officials from EM’s Office of River Protection at Hanford discussed the progress being made on the direct-feed low activity waste (DFLAW) approach for treating Hanford’s tank waste during a panel discussion...
AIKEN, S.C. – The EM program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished double-stacking 100 canisters to increase onsite interim storage of glassified high-level waste.
AIKEN, S.C. – EM Update recently talked with Frank Sheppard, senior vice president and project manager for Parsons, EM’s contractor for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS).