An EM project at the Idaho National Laboratory Site is using robotic technology and taking cues from the smartphone and gaming industries.
EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project completed several plant modifications at its Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky facilities.
A follow-up virtual public meeting will then be held to discuss the findings.
EM has made a sizable investment over the last five years to improve infrastructure and support.
Since September, crews have shipped more than 211,000 gallons of purged well water and drilling fluids.
DOE recently announced the recipients of the Secretary’s Honor Awards, and three EM teams — two from the Hanford Site and one from Oak Ridge.
DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR have found a way to reuse mercury collected from a cleanup project.
EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently began transferring dissolved spent nuclear fuel to a waste processing facility two years early.
The EM and National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Los Alamos field offices completed their first comingled shipment of transuranic waste.
The mock-up, which was built at Hanford’s Maintenance and Storage Facility (MASF), replicates the areas of the Waste Encapsulation Storage Facility.