EM Historical Photo Gallery

President Jimmy Carter visited Oak Ridge in 1978. He is accompanied by then Rep. Al Gore.

President George W. Bush visits Oak Ridge in 2004. The visit was highlighted with gas centrifuge components and uranium processing equipment sent from Libya to Oak Ridge as part of nuclear non-proliferation efforts

J. Robert Oppenheimer's visit to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Museum and Lecture in 1964.

DOE, EPA, and the state of Washington Department of Ecology officials signing a comprehensive cleanup and compliance agreement on May 15, 1989.

A worker standing inside of one of the underground tanks at Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center Tank Farm during its construction in the 1950’s.

Main gate to the Los Alamos Project in 1943

President John F. Kennedy visits Area 400 MAD Building at Los Alamos in 1962

PUREX Processing Canyon at Hanford (circa 1940s) was the first processing canyon to be deactivated in 1996.

Early environmental cleanup activities at the Hanford Site, where workers removed barrels containing hazardous waste from a 300 Area burial site.

The first TRU waste shipment arriving at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

Heavy equipment operators “top-down” shearing to safely remove the remaining structure at the Paducah Site in 2015.

In all, 177 tanks we built to store the byproducts of operations at the Hanford site in Washington. EM is now working to permanently dispose of these byproducts.

Test Reactor Area OU 2-10 at the Idaho Site in 1994.

Idaho workers removing a sample from the Drill String Enclosure

Hazardous, Radioactive, and mixed Waste Excavations were Completed in 1997 from 29 Septic and Settling Tanks Located on 24 ER Sites at the Sandia National Laboratory

Workers remove radioactively contaminated sediments from the Oak Ridge 3001 Canal at the Historic Graphite Reactor

UST Sampling at Oak Ridge.

304 Stainless Steel Heat Exchangers at the Savannah River Site.

RCRA Closure of 55 Acre Non-Radioactive Disposal Facility at the Savannah River Site.

A Motor Vehicle Operator moves a metal box into a shielded repacking area at the Fernald Thorium Overpacking Project in 1997.

DOE building a municipal water system to neighboring areas while pumping and treating groundwater at the Paducah Site in 1993.

The first canister of vitrified waste produced at the West Valley Demonstration Project.

A shipment of LLW was prepared for final off-site transport by truck at the West Valley Site in 1997.

Oak Ridge K-25 Building and workers.

Before and after of the C Reactor . The C Reactor was the first of Hanford's nine plutonium production reactors to be cocooned in 1998.

Idaho calcine storage vaults in 1997.