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June 30, 2014
SRNL Investigator Dr. James Marra
EM Laboratory Researcher James Marra Recognized for Leadership

AIKEN, S.C. – Dr. James Marra, an investigator with EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), was named the 2014 recipient of the D.T. Rankin Award for exemplary service to the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS).

June 30, 2014
Wade Sumner, Dax's last handler at SRS, says goodbye to Dax as the dog rejoins his former handler, federal Special Agent Patrick Price.
Dog Earns Retirement with Former Handler

AIKEN, S.C. – Dax, a male German shepherd in the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) security canine unit, recently earned retirement by joining the family of one of his former trainers.

June 30, 2014
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site Lead Joel Bradburne, far left, stands with faculty, staff, and students of Eastern High School during an ASER Summary Project recognition ceremony.
Project Develops Student-Stakeholders

PIKETON, Ohio ̶ High school students are learning valuable skills while helping EM provide important information to the public about the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

June 30, 2014
Trainer Randall Rickman, left to right, observes Larry Berg from EM’s Safety, Security and Quality Programs office and Tony Pierpoint from DOE’s Office of Independent Enterprise Assessments practice chemical sampling during Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response initial training in Germantown, Md.
Headquarters Training Supports EM Field Sites

GERMANTOWN, Md. – EM’s Office of Safety, Security and Quality Programs sponsored training for headquarters staff for nine days this month to help them better support the Cold War program’s cleanup sites around the complex.

June 30, 2014
The caped comb shows that the queen bee has laid eggs in the hives.
Moab Site is ‘Beezy’ with a New Kind of Worker

MOAB, Utah – Things are abuzz at EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project site in Utah. This spring, two Italian honeybee hives were started on the site’s northeast portion.

June 30, 2014
A hole near Hanford's D Reactor now 85 feet deep is shown when it was about 70 feet deep.
Workers Successfully Excavate Mother Lode of Chromium Contamination at Hanford Site

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Washington Closure Hanford (WCH) have removed what is believed to be the primary source of chromium contamination to the Columbia River near Hanford’s D Reactor after workers excavated 2.2 million tons of material from waste sites.

June 30, 2014
Soil and Groundwater Remediation Project Pipefitter John Reynolds explains some of the modifications he helped make at the 200 West Pump and Treat System that increased its water treatment capability.
Employee-Driven Initiative Increases Treatment Capacity, Reduces Clean Water Demands

RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers with CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M HILL), a cleanup contractor supporting EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL), continue to enhance and expand capabilities of a facility that treats legacy contamination at the Hanford site.

June 30, 2014
Washington Closure Hanford, the contractor managing the River Corridor Closure Project for the Richland Operations Office, leveraged subcontractor expertise and equipment to remove a 1,082-ton nuclear test reactor and dispose of it in an approved landfill. The reactor was the largest of Hanford’s experimental reactors used for developing and testing alternative fuels for the commercial nuclear power industry in the 1960s.
Hanford Site Small Businesses Secure $8.9 Billion in Subcontracts

RICHLAND, Wash. – Contractors continue to exceed their small business goals by hiring subcontractors at the Hanford site.

June 30, 2014
WIPP Mine Rescue Red Team members’ actions are evaluated during a simulated mine rescue disaster.
WIPP Takes Second in Mine Rescue Competition

CARLSBAD, N.M. – EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) mine rescue team placed second in the Southwestern Regional Mine Rescue Competition this past spring in Carlsbad, and it took home more than a trophy.

June 30, 2014
DOE named Terrel "Terry" J. Spears the new deputy manager of the Savannah River Site.
New Savannah River Site Deputy Manager Named

AIKEN, S.C. – DOE’s Savannah River Operations Office selected Terrel “Terry” J. Spears as the deputy manager of the Savannah River Site (SRS) this month.