EM has named Brian Vance the new manager for its Office of River Protection at the Hanford Site.
The 50th shipment of Cold War weapons waste from the Idaho Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has been completed.
EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently finished capping most of the Idaho Site tank farm with asphalt.
Mining operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are expected to resume this fall for the first time in more than three years.
EM’s Office of River Protection and Bechtel National Inc. announced the completion of assembly of melters to vitrify Hanford’s low-activity waste.
The final phase of full-scale testing has wrapped up for the pulse jet mixer (PJM) vessels and control systems intended for use in the Hanford WTP.
EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) expects to receive more shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste in fiscal 2017 than initially planned.
A panel discussion at the recent National Cleanup Workshop highlighted the importance of new technologies and other fresh approaches.
Workers have finished excavation to expose several waste transfer lines at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
A scaled model of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) performed exceptionally well during a recent month-long demonstration.