Workers use demolition equipment to reduce the size of degraded liners, or waste boxes, and vitrification vault lids at the West Valley Demonstration Project
The safe management and disposition of waste is a critical part of EM’s mission. Our focus is to develop advanced strategies to optimize EM waste management projects and processes. Key areas of the waste management and disposition:
Waste Disposition News
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Crews at the Hanford Site have safely moved more than 130 large waste containers from two outdoor storage areas at the Central Waste Complex, completing a significant risk-reduction project a year ahead of schedule. December 9, 2025December 9, 2025
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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, 2025November 25, 2025
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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, 2025November 18, 2025
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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, 2025November 18, 2025
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- Waste Information Management System (WIMS) provided by Florida International University provides DOE with waste forecast data.
- National Directory of Brokers and Processors Directory is intended for use by compacts, states, federal agencies and others to provide information to generators seeking to treat, process and otherwise manage their waste in preparation for ultimate disposal.
- The Central Internet Database (CID) resulted from the implementation of the December 12, 1998 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Settlement Agreement between DOE and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC et. al. v. Richardson, No.97-936(SS)(AK)).
- Greater-than-Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste (GTCC LLW)
- Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG)