A research team from Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability recently visited Aiken for a firsthand view of the nuclear industry and history of the Savannah River Site.
Nearly 60 eighth graders from area schools gathered for a unique event put on by the Savannah River Site to inspire the next generation of female engineers and science, technology, engineering and math leaders.
The impressive service to the nuclear industry by a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Savannah River Site has been recognized by a nuclear advocacy group.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management team members at the Savannah River Site used ingenuity, teamwork and decades of experience to successfully replace damaged equipment essential to the site’s spent nuclear fuel dissolution and disposition mission.
When Helene roared across the Savannah River Site in late September, its Category 1 hurricane-strength wind gusts blew down timber from one side of the site to the other and across many of the primary and secondary roads onsite.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has had one of its unused stainless steel canisters become a learning tool at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina.
The numbers are in, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management shipped the largest volume of its transuranic waste for disposal from the Savannah River Site in a decade during the past fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
A small business specializing in technology solutions is learning how to navigate business with the federal government from world-class experts through the U.S. Department of Energy Mentor-Protégé Program at the DOE Office of Environmental Management‘s Savannah River Site.
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The Savannah River Site has achieved a milestone with more than 10 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste processed through the Salt Waste Processing Facility.