April 2, 2024
WIPP Celebrates 25th Anniversary of First Waste Receipt
EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) reached a major milestone last week — 25 years of operations at the nation’s only deep, underground geological repository for disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste.
April 2, 2024
Hanford Completes Offsite Shipment of Sodium Waste
Recent completion of a project at the Hanford Site marked a significant accomplishment, as crews from EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) loaded and shipped 15 drums of sodium waste from the site’s former research reactors for offsite treatment.
January 9, 2024
Field Work Completed for Key Cleanup Project at Los Alamos Townsite
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B), the legacy cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have completed field work at the Middle DP Road (MDPR) Site.
December 5, 2023
WIPP Achieves EM’s 2023 Transuranic Waste Disposal Priority
EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has accomplished an EM 2023 priority to complete and dispose of 400 transuranic waste shipments while striving to ensure no backlog of shipments from cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site in New Mexico.
October 31, 2023
EM 2023 Priority: Moab Ships 14 Million Tons of Mill Tailings for Disposal
Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project successfully relocating another 1 million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 14 million tons permanently disposed.
October 31, 2023
Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Progress in Fiscal Year 2023
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) successfully completed several key legacy cleanup accomplishments in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, including meeting all regulatory milestones, exceeding transuranic (TRU) waste shipment goals and wrapping up fie
September 26, 2023
Idaho Site Celebrates 7,000 Shipments To Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
EM and its cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site celebrated an important milestone last week: the site’s 7,000th transuranic (TRU) waste shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
September 12, 2023
Hanford Prepares to Ship Test Glass Offsite
EM is testing technologies and processes needed to help immobilize Hanford Site tank waste in glass through a process called vitrification.
September 5, 2023
First Uranium-Oxide Shipment from Portsmouth Reaches Disposal Destination
EM achieves another milestone in its offsite shipping and disposal of depleted uranium oxide from the Portsmouth site.
July 25, 2023
Los Alamos Highlights Cleanup Progress During EM Leadership Visit
Amid renewed interest in the atomic history of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), EM leadership had the opportunity to discuss and highlight the significant progress underway in the legacy cleanup mission at LANL during a visit last week.