Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) staff recently performed an emergency preparedness drill simulating a response to an ammonia leak.
Performing work on tall structures presents unique challenges. But when they’re also aging, they bring an even greater dimension to planning.
The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site initiated operations Tuesday to convert radioactive sodium-bearing liquid waste from nearby tanks.
The skyline in the heart of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is changing again as workers begin to demolish a once world-famous reactor.
More than 300 EM employees have recently retired, resulting in a large amount of job vacancies across the cleanup program.
Crews began site preparation last week for the 60,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC) facility planned for the University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken) campus, with construction set to follow.
The H Canyon chemical separations facility at Savannah River Site (SRS) is preparing to recycle used highly enriched uranium (HEU) and downblend it to provide much-needed fuel for U.S. advanced nuclear reactors.
With EM’s liquid waste operations at Savannah River Site (SRS) relying heavily on the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), a team successfully transitioned the facility’s computers, software and security systems into the SRS network earlier this month.
EM Richland Operations Office contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently revised a respiratory protection course at the Hanford Site’s Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Federal Training Center.
The EM program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has successfully transferred the initial discard of uranium solution in its new Accelerated Basin De-inventory (ABD) mission.