EM has released its program priorities for calendar year (CY) 2023, covering key cleanup actions, project construction, acquisition and other important activities that will further EM’s critical environmental mission.

Students attending area technical colleges can now participate in the new Apprenticeship School at the Savannah River Site (SRS) created by EM contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS).

Twenty-four years ago, Beth Williams and Jeff Warren performed underground surveying work at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to help with the eventual shutdown of a facility used in the development of the U.S. space program.

Heat-up of a liquid waste treatment facility has resumed this month in anticipation of beginning radiological operations at the facility at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.

EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is focusing on a new growth opportunity for the workforce.

Identifying, training & readying the next-generation workforce is important to the continued long-term success of sites across the EM complex, and a contractor at the Hanford Site continues to invest in programs to support this initiative

DOE recently bestowed eight EM teams with the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award, recognizing projects at the Idaho, Savannah River and Hanford sites as well as a group of employees who revamped and expanded EM’s Minority Serving Institutions.

The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) recently took another step in reducing environmental risk at the Hanford Site, as workers began retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from the fourth & final underground single-shell storage tank in the AX Farm.

As crews ready a liquid waste treatment facility at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site for sodium-bearing waste processing, EM is preparing to construct a new building to provide additional capacity for the safe storage of treated waste material.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are performing extensive upgrades designed to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations (LGWO) facilities.