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Public tours are set to resume this month for a limited time at the Hanford Site’s B Reactor National Historical Park, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which also includes facilities in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
In the half century since the inception of the Waste Management Symposia, many EM sites have come full circle, cleaned and transformed into wildlife refuges, wetland preserves and national parks, U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk remarked in a prerecorded video message to the audience at the annual conference.
EM leadership met with members of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce.
Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology, hosted the fiscal year 2026 Hanford Site Cleanup Priorities public briefing on March 6 at the Richland Public Library.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have initiated the second phase of construction for the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF).
On March 12, 2024, EM released its Strategic Vision 2024-2034, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.
EM construction crews at the Hanford Site are laying it on the line — literally — to expand the treatment capacity of the site’s already robust groundwater cleanup program.
EM crews recently completed a virtual inspection of an underground tank that once stored liquid waste from spent fuel reprocessing operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project in the 1960s and ‘70s.
An employee with EM Hanford Site 222-S Laboratory contractor Navarro-ATL recently encountered a chemical that required removal from the site by the local explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit after the chemical was placed in a safe configuration.
EM team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for teardown in the near future.