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.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride to more stable compounds recently returned to full operations at both the Portsmouth and Paducah sites’ first-of-a-kind facilities.
Cleanup crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are using a soft-sided enclosure — basically a building within a building — to open containers to treat and repackage transuranic waste inside of them, enabling the material to be compliantly shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for permanent disposal.
In another major milestone, the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at Savannah River Site recently started dissolving nuclear material from a Japanese research reactor, leading to its safe disposal.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR took another step forward in the construction of the Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
The Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently resumed preparation of certain legacy transuranic waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
On the heels of the Summer Olympics, two Hanford Site contractors have finished a first-time relay of test glass while preparing for a giant leap forward in the cleanup mission.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project recently notched an annual cleanup priority ahead of schedule for a second consecutive year
After almost a year of collaboration, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews at Savannah River Site recently completed sampling of heavy water moderator tanks, which will help determine the eventual disposition of the tritiated moderator.