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The biggest land parcel transfer at East Tennessee Technology Park has just been completed. DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has transferred a 365-acre tract where a powerhouse complex was once located to the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee.
The commencement of radiological operations at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit was a pivotal success for EM last year. It also provided DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the Idaho National Laboratory a key to continued achievements as well.
Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are demolishing a former chemical storage area near the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the Hanford Site’s five former plutonium production facilities.
EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project have safely removed the largest of nine tanks from a liquid waste cell as part of the ongoing demolition of the Main Plant Process Building.
Calloway County High School Team #1 won this year’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl on Friday, culminating months of planning by volunteers and coaches for an event touted as the region’s most prominent science competition for high school students.
EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project safely demolished a former security guardhouse built in 1965, one of the first facilities constructed at the former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.
During the calendar year of 2023, the team at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant had its best shipment performance in 10 years, continuing the cleanup of sites in New Mexico and across the country.
EM Senior Advisor William "Ike" White visit to Oak Ridge.
EM has made significant progress in reducing the transuranic (TRU) waste inventory at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), fulfilling a commitment to the State of Idaho.
The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) have completed the first waste processing campaign through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System at the Hanford Site.