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RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) has given Bechtel National (BNI), the contractor for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), a positive assessment for its performance in 2016, according to a recently rele...
AIKEN, S.C. – EM has begun the critical task of connecting the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities earlier than planned, taking advantage of a system-wide outage prompted by the need to repla...
RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers are preparing for a challenging phase of the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) demolition: continuing th...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) have begun removing contaminated soil along the steep south-facing slopes of Los Alamos Canyon adjacent to the Los Alamos Townsite.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Roger Jarrell has joined EM senior management at DOE headquarters as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for EM. In his new role, Jarrell will serve as EM’s key interface with the Office of the Secretary and other senior Ad...
RICHLAND, Wash.– In a video recorded May 20, Hanford Site workers place a protective cover over Tunnel 1 at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility (PUREX), where a portion of the tunnel roof was discovered collapsed May
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange will participate in a panel discussion on June 7 for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus ...
RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) has awarded Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the Hanford Site services contractor, 91 percent of its available fee for fiscal year 2016, according to a recently release award fee determination s...
AIKEN, S.C. –Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site, recently streamlined calibration laboratories, avoiding an estimated $12 million in costs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Douglas Tonkay, director of the EM Office of Waste Disposal, has been elected a vice president of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.