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Office of Environmental Management

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Fluor Fernald Workers are Expected to Finish Pneumatically Removing Thorium-Bearing Waste from Silo 3 in November 2005. More Than 1,400 Containers (3-cubic yards each) Have Been Filled Since March. As a result of our nation’s development of its nuclear arsenal during the cold war, weapons production and/or weapons plants around the country created a need for the government to decontaminate these sites by cleaning up the residual from the nuclear waste. In response to this need, in 1989 at the Department of Energy, the Office of Environmental Management (EM) was created to assess and cleanup inactive waste sites and facilities around the country. Our assessment and cleanup efforts include ensuring the development and implementation of safe and effective waste management operations, developing and implementing aggressive applied waste management operations and applied waste research and development programs that utilize innovative and cost effective environmental technologies to address permanent disposal of high and low level nuclear waste.

Our Mission

To complete the cleanup of the contaminated nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing sites across the United States.

Our Vision

Safely and cost effectively cleanup the legacy of the nation’s nuclear weapons program using a highly qualified, motivated, and career oriented workforce that manages at least 90 percent of its projects on cost and on schedule.

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