Classified records from the start of the Manhattan Project arrived safely at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration near Washington, D.C.
The legacy of a pit that held radioactive and hazardous waste for 56 years at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site has ended.
Leadership from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) came together recently to exchange best practices for decommissioning facilities and a host of other cleanup topics.
Employees with Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth (FBP), EM’s decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site, were recently treated to a luncheon, celebrating the completion of 4 million safe work hours.
Representatives of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) and EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) were on hand last week to congratulate Dominic Montaño and Milnor Branch.
The Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team last week poured the first batches of glass forming beads, called frit, into a melter heated to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR accomplished an EM priority four months ahead of schedule when they broke ground on the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) last week.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) has successfully completed — on or ahead of schedule — seven of 14 fiscal year 2023 (FY23) milestones for legacy cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
EM has marked a major achievement in the effort to expand interim storage of canisters of vitrified high-level waste at the Savannah River Site (SRS) while saving taxpayer dollars.
In just a few years, an intern has taken his interest in computer science to the next level in the EM program supporting contractors at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site with virtual reality and other technologies.