By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Back to school! To support local teachers, the EM Nevada Program “Operation Clean Desert " crew took part in the annual two-day Clark County School District new teacher kickoff event, distributing hundreds of Operation Clean Desert activity books and teacher’s guides. The learning materials...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors know the importance of training to ensure safety. Recently, it helped save a life in an unlikely place.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has signed a contract valued at $600 million with Cray Inc. to build NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer, “El Capitan,” with an anticipated delivery in late 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - A panel of experts has been assembled to provide periodic reviews and recommendations on the safety and effectiveness of EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) ground control programs and future mine designs.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Employees from EM Richland Operations Office contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) volunteer at local schools to support “STEM! Like Me," part of the Washington State Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Education Foundation.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) recently hosted DOE’s annual forum to share opportunities with local small businesses qualifying for HUBZone certification as well as those already certified. HUBZones are historically underutilized business zones. SRS management and operations contractor Savannah...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) as well as an evaluation...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report on Climate Change and Land Use...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: LAPWAI, Idaho - EM Hanford Site Manager Brian Vance, far left, back row, recently visited students at the Preparing for Academic Excellence (PACE) Camp on the Nez Perce Tribe’s reservation following his briefing on Hanford Site cleanup progress to the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee. Vance talked...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - EM recently completed deactivation, decontamination, demolition, and site restoration at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) nuclear facilities at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM crews recently completed extensive lighting renovations across a facility supporting many critical missions at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Kesselring Site Environmental Remediation Services, Demolition and Removal Services of Facilities (Contaminated), Waste Management Services, and Regulatory Services.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A team of environmental educators reached over 60,000 individuals last year through an outreach program supported by EM funding at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has ended a successful 11-year demonstration of two interim salt waste processing facilities as crews prepare for startup of a new facility to replace them at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, along with Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., John Kennedy, R-La., Doug Jones, D-Ala., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., recently introduced new legislation to facilitate the equitable sharing of revenues from energy production in the nation’s Outer Continental Shelf.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently began startup testing of the steam system needed to support EM’s program for treating underground tank waste at the Hanford Site, called Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Newly appointed members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) recently toured EM’s major cleanup projects at the Oak Ridge Site.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter today to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in trade agreements.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) coordinated with regulators and partnered with small businesses to complete a soil disposal project for $1.2 million - nearly $75 million under its original estimated budget.
