U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management team members at the Savannah River Site used ingenuity, teamwork and decades of experience to successfully replace damaged equipment essential to the site’s spent nuclear fuel dissolution and disposition mission.
Construction crews recently installed a crane inside the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's High-Level Waste Facility.
The numbers are in, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management shipped the largest volume of its transuranic waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site in a decade during the past fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The team at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recently began renovating a critical piece of the underground repository’s infrastructure, mobilizing more than 2,100 feet below the Earth’s surface to overhaul a mammoth steel-framed bin known as the “salt pocket.”
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR continue making steady progress on the construction of the Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
The Savannah River Site has achieved a milestone with more than 10 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste processed through the Salt Waste Processing Facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are celebrating an important accomplishment in transuranic waste shipping operations.
Crews at the Portsmouth Site recently completed construction of a storage tank designed to hold 1 million gallons of wastewater and leachate from the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently “put the lid” on a project to permanently seal 15 stainless steel containers of spent nuclear fuel, reducing risk at the Hanford Site.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Transuranic Waste Processing Center is one of the first locations in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management complex to initiate a new treatment process for cellulosic waste approved by EM’s Carlsbad Field Office.