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The Office of Environmental Management has achieved its third radioactive waste removal milestone in one calendar year at the Savannah River Site — now marking three waste tanks staged ahead of schedule for next steps in the closure process.
The U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office has commenced work to deactivate, decommission and remove the Ion Beam Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
West Valley Demonstration Project officials met with representatives from the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management in Tennessee to share lessons learned from the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.
It won’t be long before the Integrated Disposal Facility is ready for its critical role in the mission to treat tank waste through the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program at the Hanford Site.
The Hanford Field Office and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions are working with a local business to create a full-scale mock-up for the next phase of liquid radioactive waste pretreatment.
About 40 students from local rural high schools visited the Hanford Site’s Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center to learn about the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management mission and career opportunities in STEM fields at the site.
EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are now adding more capacity to store vitrified liquid waste, a significant federal cost-savings initiative at SRS.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have successfully reestablished full production capacity at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center.
EM workers at the Savannah River Site recently restored six portable tanks, helping preserve an essential site capability of transporting large quantities of radioactively contaminated or hazardous liquid solutions while creating cost savings.