WASHINGTON, D.C. – Registration is now open for the second-annual National Cleanup Workshop, set to be held on Sept. 14-15, 2016, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Va.
The workshop is being hosted by the Energy Communities Alliance. Cooperating organizations for the event include DOE and the Energy Facility Contractors Group.
The workshop will bring together senior DOE executives and site officials, industry executives, and other stakeholders to discuss EM's progress on the cleanup of the environmental legacy of the nation’s Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear weapons program. EM senior leadership set to participate in the workshop include Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney, and Acting Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Frank Marcinowski.
This year’s workshop will address:
- The path forward for high-level waste at EM’s Hanford and Savannah River sites;
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recovery and the National TRU Program;
- Upcoming acquisitions and procurement policy changes;
- Industry, community, and state perspectives on the future of cleanup;
- Startup, construction, and commissioning progress in 2016;
- Decommissioning successes and lessons learned;
- Advanced robotics and other EM technology development priorities;
- Maintaining a safety conscious work environment across the EM complex;
- Bringing new workers to the EM cleanup program and effective human capital management; and
- DOE’s path forward for defense high-level waste disposal.
Additional information on the workshop, including how to register, can be found here.
More than 350 people attended the inaugural workshop in late September last year. EM made available the event's support materials, including links to 15 videos that captured addresses by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Regalbuto, along with roundtable sessions focusing on the cleanup program’s next five years and its major accomplishments. The presentations from the roundtable sessions, photos from the workshop, and a workshop attendee list are all available here.