EM Headquarters' Stacy Charboneau Tours Savannah River Site

AIKEN, S.C. – EM Associate Principal Deputy Secretary for Field Operations Stacy Charboneau toured the Savannah River Site (SRS) in late June.  In a visit to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), Tom Burns, vice president for contractor Parsons and SWPF deputy project manager, briefed Charboneau and SRS Manager Jack Craig on testing and commissioning of the facility, which is on schedule to begin radioactive operations at the end of 2018.  

Charboneau visited Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) facilities at the Applied Research Center, taking part in a demonstration on glovebox gloves made of an advanced material called graphene. She met with several interns in the DOE-sponsored Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program to learn about their work projects this summer. The SRNL tour concluded with a stop at the shielded cells facility to see the progress of the cell replacement windows project.

SRS Curator Melissa Jolley led Charboneau and Craig on a tour of the SRS Curation Facility, where Jolley highlighted artifacts from the pre-construction period of the Savannah River Plant in the 1950s including the original plant map produced by DuPont, which built the plant.