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
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
U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office team members highlighted the importance of characterizing legacy waste safely and efficiently, and disposing of that waste off Los Alamos National Laboratory property, during the recent Environmental Management Cleanup Forum. September 30, 2025
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor Isotek Systems met a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management 2025 priority to process 50 canisters of the radioactive material uranium-233 for shipment and disposal three months ahead of schedule. September 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management announced it awarded five basic ordering agreements to conduct nationwide low-level and mixed low-level commercial waste treatment services at commercial waste treatment facilities of DOE contractors .
Drawing from an innovative technology, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have achieved a breakthrough set to eliminate a complex legacy waste stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the past 50 years. August 12, 2025
Cleanup crews have placed the final layer of a special soil forming the ideal foundation for two new cells being constructed at the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility at the Portsmouth Site. July 22, 2025
Crews with the Idaho Cleanup Project successfully completed the first of many modifications to a legacy facility to get spent nuclear fuel “road ready” for future shipment out of state. July 8, 2025