U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management
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Recent News About U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management
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Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and other EM officials recently visited the Portsmouth Site to observe demolition and disposal activities associated with the cleanup program’s mission.
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The Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed loading approximately 55,000 pounds of small carbon pellets into the emissions treatment system of the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) determined that the highest temperature in the history of Washington state was recorded in June at the Hanford Meteorological Station, managed by EM Richland Operations Office contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS).
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EM cleanup contractor UCOR is raising awareness among soon-to-be graduates in higher education about opportunities to work at Oak Ridge.
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As part of deactivation activities, crews finished cutting and removing the 26-inch-diameter duct that carried exhaust from past operations at the building.
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EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White has approved a proposal that will save decades of work and billions of dollars in spent nuclear fuel disposition at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
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Tank by tank, batch by batch, the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) are reducing risk to the environment by retrieving waste from the Hanford Site’s single-shell waste-storage tanks.
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) is announcing the expansion of its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).EM’s minority serving institutions program originally included internships, competitive research awards, a post-doctoral research program, and the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station.
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With its steep canyons and watersheds emptying into the Rio Grande, numerous ancient pueblo cultural sites, and wildlife ranging from black bears to broad-tailed hummingbirds, the Pajarito Plateau creates a distinct backdrop for environmental remediation around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
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The three government entities agreed to a new approach for Pit 9 that would fold the project into a broader buried waste environmental investigation at the landfill.
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Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) oversaw the demonstration recently of a new radiological inspection technology called iGART.
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EM's fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request of $7.64 billion reflects the strong commitment to clean up the environment in communities that historically supported or continue to support nuclear weapons programs and government-sponsored nuclear research.
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Of primary interest was protection of the Snake River Plain Aquifer, the second-largest continuous aquifer in the U.S., flowing 585 feet below the landfill.
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The first batch of approximately 200,000 gallons of tank waste has been treated by the Hanford Site’s Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System and is staged in a double-shell tank for immobilization in glass when the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant begins vitrifying waste.
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Following several buried waste exhumation projects in the 1970s, the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site tested technologies to allow for a larger waste retrieval effort and attempt to minimize the spread of contaminated soil.
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Representing more than 15% of EM’s annual budget, small business prime contractors and subcontractors contribute significantly to the cleanup program’s success at every one of its sites.
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Just months after the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I began generating electricity in December 1951 in a historic first, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site opened its first waste repository on the 890-square-mile Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) site.
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Elected officials and EM leaders last week commended the team that completed the exhumation of targeted waste from 5.69 acres of a Cold War weapons landfill at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
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With small businesses a key contract component across the EM complex, prime contractors at the Hanford Site are collaborating to connect with potential subcontractors and offer firsthand assistance to small businesses.
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Work crews completed the retrieval of buried waste from 5.69 acres at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex.