EM crews recently placed a final radioactive waste shipment into the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest waste disposal area and will begin closing the facility, fulfilling a DOE commitment to the state of Idaho.
An Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site program has adapted to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to ship waste out of the state in support of the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its cleanup contractor recently launched a new recycling initiative that diverted nearly 5 tons of plastic from a local landfill in April.
Two EM programs recently collaborated to enhance an established radioactive waste inspection process, allowing for continued safe, secure, and compliant waste shipments from one DOE site to another.
Ethan Hoopes changed the direction of his life following a friend’s recommendation during an Idaho hunting trip in 2018.
EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is once again accepting shipments and processing transuranic waste following a successful annual maintenance outage that keeps the facility’s vital national mission going.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) commitment to its mission includes a move to low-emission and battery-electric vehicles in its underground repository.
EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are setting the stage to accelerate the removal and disposal of plutonium from South Carolina.
Crews are working to finish construction of a dedicated road at EM’s Portsmouth Site that will be used to haul demolition material to the new On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).
EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) sold 52 no-longer-needed special purpose railroad cars to an environmental cleanup company, a transaction that benefitted the U.S Treasury and enabled the site to avoid years of maintenance costs.