Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company have placed the final protective layer in Trench 31, a waste-disposal trench near the center of the Hanford Site.
DOE-EM awarded a new task order contract to Aptim Federal Services, LLC, of Baton Rouge LA under the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal (DD&R) contract to perform DD&R of the former Ion Beam Facility (IBF).
Amid renewed interest in the atomic history of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), EM leadership had the opportunity to discuss and highlight the significant progress underway in the legacy cleanup mission at LANL during a visit last week.
With the recent uptick in interest in the role Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) played in the World War II-era Manhattan Project, EM Senior Advisor William White was joined by EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) officials in a visit to Los Alamos.
EM recently moved a significant step toward closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building, which could comfortably house a modern U.S. aircraft carrier.
Efforts to address legacy transuranic waste recently took an important step forward as the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) have begun size reduction activities.
EM’s revised roadmap for completion of the liquid waste program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is now available.
EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed a penthouse enclosure as part of ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.
Hanford Site workers recently removed a complex piece of equipment that stood in the way of future tank-waste retrieval.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) recently held a public meeting to discuss its third and final report centered on EM’s tank waste cleanup mission at the Hanford Site in Washington state.