AIKEN, SC – The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site has received Environmental Sustainability (EStar) awards from DOE for two projects growing out of technology research, development and application at the Savannah River National Laboratory... For …
Cincinnati --The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Final Request for Proposal for management and operations of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan (WIPP) located in Carlsbad, New Mexico... For additional information, please click the link above.
RICHLAND, Wash. – Hanford workers are pouring enough cement-like material to fill six Olympic-size swimming pools in one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) largest nuclear facilities at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington State to prepare the …
RICHLAND, Wash. – The first chapter of The Hanford Story multimedia series, Hanford Overview, has received an Emmy for best Historical/Cultural – Program/Special. The award was presented by the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts …
The Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Site-Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) will meet in North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 15-16, at Aliante Station Hotel located at 7300 Aliante Parkway. Twice each …
RICHLAND, WASH. – Hanford’s Department of Energy offices and their contractors received special recognition today for their part in promoting sustainability. .. For additional information, please click the link above.
(Grand Junction, CO) - One quarter of the uranium mill tailings pile located in Moab, Utah, has been relocated to the Crescent Junction, Utah, site for permanent disposal. Four million tons of the 16 million tons total has been relocated under the Uranium …
RICHLAND, WASH. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at Hanford surpassed a Tri-Party Agreement Milestone by four months in shipping 1,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste off the Hanford Site in route to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New …
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 31, 2011 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has reached an important milestone in its campaign to ship transuranic (TRU) waste from Cold War-era nuclear operations to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ( …
Idaho Falls – In order to further meet the U.S. Department of Energy’s commitments to the citizens of the state of Idaho, the DOE today announced that it has selected Idaho Treatment Group, LLC (ITG) to perform waste processing at the Advanced Mixed Waste …
RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers at the Hanford Site have surpassed goals for drilling wells to detect and remove contamination from groundwater. The groundwater was contaminated by radioactive waste and chemicals generated during decades of producing plutonium …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office is sponsoring a groundwater open house on May 25, 2011, from 5-8pm at the Beatty Community Center located at 100 A Avenue South in Beatty, Nevada... For …
CARLSBAD, N.M., May 18, 2011 – New Mexico State University’s Low Background Radiation Experiment (LBRE), which takes place 2,150 feet below the earth’s surface at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, recently released some results about the project’s first two …
RICHLAND, WASH. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at Hanford will hold its annual DOE Integrated Safety Management (ISM) Champions Workshop on September 12-15, 2011, at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash... For additional information …
AIKEN, S.C. – The F Canyon box remediation program, an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project at Savannah River Site (SRS), has come online to process legacy transuranic (TRU) waste for off-site shipment and permanent disposal at the Waste …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced today it has surpassed one of the Obama Administration’s High Priority Performance Goals five months ahead of schedule in its effort to clean up the legacy of the Cold War. .. For additional …
RICHLAND, WASH. – Two locomotives that hauled irradiated fuel around the Hanford Site for a half-century will reach their final stop this week when they are delivered to the Historic B Reactor for preservation and public display... For additional …
Oak Ridge, Tenn. – As part of its ongoing commitment to cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War at sites across the weapons complex, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a contract for the remaining environmental cleanup at the East Tennessee …
AIKEN, S.C. – A $3.5-million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has placed an operational stormwater runoff cover over the 625,000-square-foot area comprising E-Area Low-Level Waste (LLW) Facility Slit Trench …
