The Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced late December that it has hit the majority of its cleanup priorities for the year 2021.
EM’s CY 2021 Mission and Priorities Scorecard demonstrates that, despite the pandemic, EM made significant strides in completing key projects, reducing the cleanup footprint, awarding major contracts that accelerate progress, and driving mission innovation and improved performance.
“We embarked on an ambitious slate of priorities this year and were able to achieve the vast majority of what we set out to do," EM Senior Advisor William "Ike" White said in a release. "These achievements were in no small part due to the strong support we received from state, tribal and local partners who share our commitment to cleanup progress.”
EM completed major construction milestones for treatment of tank waste, the cleanup program’s most significant challenge. The Hanford site in Washington State soon will begin operations of the Tank-Side Cesium Removal system, which will filter low-activity tank waste before sending it to be vitrified, or immobilized, into glass logs for safe disposal.
A complete scorecard of CY 2021 priorities and other information can be accessed here.
According to the press release, EM will announce its mission priorities for CY 2022 early in the new year.
