EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White recently joined elected officials, local stakeholders and nearly 2,000 employees at the Portsmouth Site to celebrate the gaseous diffusion plant’s 70th anniversary.

EM has selected a director from the Office of Naval Reactors (NR) with over 26 years of experience in program management, policy and technical experience to serve as the cleanup program’s new principal deputy assistant secretary, effective this January.

The 21st Annual Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy on Nuclear Waste Cleanup last week brought together EM and six intergovernmental groups to discuss priorities and strategies to advance the cleanup mission.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) cleanup contractor UCOR is expanding initiatives to build its future workforce while maintaining cleanup and reindustrialization efforts at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation.

About 50 students from an area high school recently visited the Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center for STEM Day.

The U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office and its contractor partners, Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), collaborated to host the DOE/ Energy Facility Contractors Group Fire Protection Workshop.

A series of recent job fairs hosted by the EM Los Alamos Field Office cleanup contractor have resulted in 26 new employees supporting the mission to address environmental impacts from legacy operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Whether by barge, truck or train, when large pieces of equipment arrive at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) on the Hanford Site, the crane and rigging team is trusted to plan and perform delivery and installation.

An EM director joined other federal government representatives last week to focus on succession planning and the “great resignation” in the final installment of the 2022 FEDTalks Key Executive Leadership Programs Speaker Series.

EM’s Portsmouth Site recently evaluated the use of electric mowers to provide a safer, greener future for grounds maintenance activities.