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EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently took a significant step in ensuring continued safe storage of radioactive and chemical waste.
Last year, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Education Outreach programs faced daunting limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the organization saw an opportunity to enhance and extend the reach of their broad range of initiatives.
Collaboration between EM and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International has yielded five new standards and testing practices for fixatives — the latest being approved earlier this summer.
Almost a year after shutting off three vapor treatment units at a former radioactive and hazardous waste landfill at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, analytical data from thousands of vapor samples indicate that cleanup objectives have been achieved.
EM Acting Assistant Secretary William “Ike” White visited the Portsmouth Site last month to get a firsthand look at demolition and disposal progress as part of the ongoing decontamination and decommissioning of the site.
Brian Vance, manager of the EM Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office, recently hosted a roundtable discussion with tribal nations located near the Hanford Site.
For the first time, workers at EM’s Paducah Site are able to closely examine the primary source of off-site groundwater contamination directly underneath the C-400 Cleaning Building.
Reclassifying dozens of year-round interns as apprentices at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) has benefited both the students and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently finished startup testing for the Low-Activity Waste Facility's uninterruptible electrical power system, one of the plant's vital safeguards in the unlikely event of temporary power loss.
EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have surpassed a major environmental restoration milestone by deactivating and decommissioning (D&D) 50 buildings — more than 1 million square feet of space — since 2008.