The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have finished fieldwork and begun monitoring groundwater elevations for a study at the Environmental Management Disposal Facility site.
The Idaho Cleanup Project has improved transuranic waste operations to address waste inventory challenges, ensure shipments remain compliant with safety standards and meet commitments to the state of Idaho.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management awarded a contract for elemental mercury long-term management and storage to Waste Control Specialists LLC of Andrews, Texas, for a total maximum period of performance of five years with an estimated value of $17.8 million.
Crews at the Idaho Cleanup Project will modify a Cold War-era facility to transfer, repackage and place spent nuclear fuel in a “road ready” state to prepare for its eventual removal from Idaho.
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.