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The impressive service to the nuclear industry by a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Savannah River Site has been recognized by a nuclear advocacy group.

Two research scientists from universities in Japan visited the West Valley Demonstration Project earlier this fall to test their novel radiation detectors.

Crews at the Idaho Cleanup Project will modify a Cold War-era facility to transfer, repackage and place spent nuclear fuel in a “road ready” state to prepare for its eventual removal from Idaho.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management team members at the Savannah River Site used ingenuity, teamwork and decades of experience to successfully replace damaged equipment essential to the site’s spent nuclear fuel dissolution and disposition mission.

During a 30-day public comment period, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Hanford Field Office hosted its annual Hanford Site 5-Year Plan public meeting.

When Helene roared across the Savannah River Site in late September, its Category 1 hurricane-strength wind gusts blew down timber from one side of the site to the other and across many of the primary and secondary roads onsite.

Construction crews recently installed a crane inside the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's High-Level Waste Facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has had one of its unused stainless steel canisters become a learning tool at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina.

Crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently completed the single largest demolition project in Idaho Cleanup Project history three months ahead of schedule and under budget.

The numbers are in, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management shipped the largest volume of its transuranic waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site in a decade during the past fiscal year ending Sept. 30.