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Savannah River Site, Aiken, S.C. – Security Protection Officers from Savannah River
Site’s (SRS) security contractor WSI-SRS, today won the Department of Energy (DOE)
Secretary’s Trophy as the top DOE team in the 2012 Security Protection Officer Team
Competition (SPOTC)- 2012 Carolina Challenge, held here, April 22-26. It was the 40th
anniversary of the SPOTC competition.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to extend CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company’s contract for environmental cleanup at the Hanford Site by another five years.

The Idaho site today initiated the controlled, phased startup of a new waste treatment facility scheduled to begin treating 900,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste stored in underground tanks at a former Cold War spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility next month.

CARLSBAD, N.M. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC (members comprised of URS Energy & Construction, Inc., of Boise, Idaho, and Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group, Inc., of Lynchburg, Virginia, and Major Subcontractor, AREVA Federal Services LLC, of Bethesda, Maryland) has been awarded a $1.3 billion contract for management and operating (M&O) at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

RICHLAND, Wash. – The Department of Energy is releasing the sixth chapter of The Hanford Story video series to the public today. "Plutonium Finishing Plant" provides viewers with a look at the history and cleanup of the highest hazard facility remaining at the Hanford Site.

IDAHO FALLS, ID - Operations to retrieve the estimated 6,900 cubic meters of stored transuranic waste remaining at the Idaho site began this week at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cleanup contractor Safety and Ecology Corporation recently removed four structures as part of the Building 3026 C/D Hot Cells Project.

Energy Department Announces Path Forward to Close Some of DOE’s Largest Radioactive Waste Storage Tanks Closed to Date

PIKETON, OH – Have you ever wanted to go inside the security fence at the Department of Energy’s former uranium enrichment facilities to see what’s behind the gates?

AIKEN, S.C. – Today, Under Secretary of Energy Thomas D’Agostino joined U.S. Representative
Joe Wilson (R-SC) and other senior officials from the Department of Energy (DOE) and Ameresco, Inc.
(NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, to mark the successful
operational startup of a new $795M renewable energy fueled facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS).