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With crews in the early stages of demolishing X-333, the second of the Portsmouth Site’s three former uranium process buildings, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management leaders at the site are emphasizing the number one priority: safety of the workforce and community. November 25, 2025
Engineers with the contractor cleaning up the radioactive tank waste at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have developed a 3D-printed tool that can eliminate months from the tank waste sampling timeline. November 25, 2025
As West Valley Demonstration Project workers prepared a miscellany of legacy items for disposal this year, they dug up memories of a patented invention for the safe disposal of radioactive waste created by a group of engineers working on the site’s cleanup in the 1980s. November 25, 2025
Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management filled 52 canisters with nearly 215,000 pounds of glass-waste mixture at the Savannah River Site and removed 11,872 pounds of volatile organic compounds from groundwater at the site. November 25, 2025
A collaborative initiative among training professionals at the Hanford Site is building stronger partnerships and improving the way training is developed and delivered in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission of safe and efficient cleanup. November 25, 2025
Workers have begun demolishing the massive X-333 Process Building, achieving a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management priority to begin demolition of the second of the Portsmouth Site’s three former uranium process buildings. November 18 , 2025
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management crews demolished seven structures that make up the Q-Complex at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and returned the restored site to the Office of Naval Reactors for redevelopment. November 18, 2025
Mark Bollinger is manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Carlsbad Field Office, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeast New Mexico. November 18, 2025
Idaho Cleanup Project is expanding a critical disposal facility, employing lessons learned from two decades of operational success and the best of American technology to continue safely disposing of waste and enabling the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management to meet its commitments to the state of Idaho. November 18, 2025
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management made strides moving environmental cleanup and reindustrialization forward across Oak Ridge with the help of contractors United Cleanup Oak Ridge and Isotek in the fiscal year that recently ended. November 18, 2025