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News Releases

SRS News Releases
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2013:

02.07.13 Savannah River Tritium Enterprise Achieves High Marks for Support to Nation’s Security

02.06.13 Historic Tank Marker Donated to Savannah River Site Archives

01.23.13 New-Style Disposal Units Working as Planned
at SRS

2012:

12.14.12 SRS Tours for 2013 Announced

12.06.12 Area Children to Benefit from SRS “Toys for Tots” Campaign

11.20.12 Improved Saltstone Sets Production Records

11.17.12 Mobility Impaired Hunters Seek Trophy Buck at SRS

11.16.12 NNSA Completes Milestones for Initial Steps in Plutonium Disposition

11.15.12 SRS Liquid Waste Group Receives Top DOE Safety Award

11.14.12 SRR Meets Production Goals

11.13.12 SRNL’s Bannochie to Receive ACS
E. Ann Nalley Award

11.05.12 Legacy Company Construction Workers Achieve Milestone at SRS

10.22.12 SRS Sponsors Deer Hunt for Wounded Warriors

10.16.12 SRNL Researchers Awarded $6.3 Million in DOE Solar Grants

10.02.12 DOE’s SRS Continues Exemplary Environmental Performance

10.01.12 SRS Celebrates Closure of Two Additional Radioactive Waste Tanks

09.25.12 SRNL’s Summers to receive Robert E. Wilson Award

09.20.12 SRNL’S Cozzi Named Fellow of ACerS

09.19.12 Over 6,000 Area Students Attend College Night 2012

09.10.12 SRNS Pours Millions of Gallons of Cement-Like Grout to Close Part of SRS’s C Reactor

09.06.12 Improved Saltstone Facilities Restart Operations

08.28.12 SRNL Chosen to Participate in New DOE Technology Transfer Initiative

08.23.12 SRNS Education Outreach: Back to School Report

08.22.12 Aiken County, SRNS Establish Energy Materials Research Laboratory

08.07.12 SRS Reaches Major Cleanup Milestone as SRNS Completes Lower Three Runs Project

07.27.12 SRNL Engineers Help Youngsters Share Their Excitement About Science & Engineering

07.24.12 SRS Upgrades Helium Recovery System

07.24.12 SRNL Engineer Named Fellow of ASME

07.16.12 Savannah River National Laboratory Microspheres Win Top Honors

07.12.12 SRS Plays Ball for Area United Way Agencies

07.11.12 SRS’s Maciaszek Elected Fellow of Society of Fire Protection Engineers

07.09.12 Bulk Grouting on 2 SRS Waste Tanks Complete; Final Tank Capping Expected Later This Summer

07.05.12 SRS Leadership Association Names Executive and Leader of the Year

06.08.12 SRS Historic Achievement in Transporting Nuclear Waste to New Mexico

06.07.12 SRS Employees Donate Food to Golden Harvest Food Bank

05.29.12 SRNL’s Gupta Elected Fellow of ASME

05.22.12 D Area Powerhouse Retired after Nearly 60 Years of Service

05.09.12 Historic Milestone Achieved as 1 Million Gallons of Grout Is Poured into SRS Waste Tanks 18 and 19

05.07.12 SRR Uses Robots Instead of Employees for Hazardous Work

05.03.12 Regional Future City Middle School Competition Announces Pre-Registration and 2012-2013
Essay Theme

04.30.12 Experts Tests Agencies’ Skills at Radiological Detection and Control

03.21.12 Students Create Award-Winning Business From SRNL Technology

03.13.12 Tokyo Electric Power Company Visits Department of Energy Labs

03.12.12 SRS Marks Successful Operational Startup of New Biomass Cogeneration Facility

03.05.12 SRR Employees Surpass 10 Million Hours Without Missing A Day of Work Due to An Injury

02.27.12 SRS Partnering Leads Toward Deployment of New Chemical Extraction Solvent

02.16.12 “Safety Begins with Me” – Working towards an Injury Free Workplace

02.14.12 SRNL Achieves 10 Million Safe Hours

02.06.12 Last Piece of Equipment Delivered for SRR ARRA Project

02.02.12 SRNL Names Director of Strategic Development and Technical Partnerships

01.30.12 SRNL - Reducing Ion Exchange Particles to Nano-Size Shows Big Potential

01.30.12 Salt Processing Reaches First of Two 2012 Contract Milestones

01.25.12 DWPF Melter 2 Pours 2,000th Canister

01.09.12 SRNL Research Paves Way for Portable Power Systems

2011:

12.27.11 Tritium Programs Reaches Goal Ahead of Schedule

12.13.11 SRS Employee Transition Center Receives National Recognition

12.08.11 Area Children to Benefit from SRS Toys for Tots Campaign

12.08.11 SRS Public Tours Announced for 2012

12.02.11 DOE/SRNS Meet Major Milestone with Over 300 Metric Tons of Low Enriched Uranium Delivered to TVA Power Reactors

11.21.11 Environmental Cleanup Technology Honored

11.14.11 DWPF Melter 4 Vessel, Frame Arrive Ahead of Schedule, On Budget

11.12.11 Eleventh Annual Mobility Impaired/Wounded Warriors Hunt at SRS

11.07.11 SRNL Honored for Japan Support

11.03.11 NNSA Breaks Ground on Tritium Facilities at SRS

10.26.11 Saltstone Processes 10 Million Gallons of Waste

10.13.11 SRS Waste Tanks Closer to Closure Thanks to ARRA

10.06.11 Sixteen Area Students Awarded Scholarships Totaling $16,000 during 2011 CSRA College Night

10.04.11 SRS Continues Exemplary Environmental Performance

09.30.11 Closing a Reactor Chapter in the Book of SRS Opens the Next for the Site

09.22.11 Journal Focuses on SRNL, Chernobyl Laboratory Collaboration

09.07.11 Approximately $17,000 in Scholarships Offered to Students Attending CSRA College Night Thursday Night

08.17.11 SRNL Named a National Safety Council Industry Leader

08.10.11 SRS Environmental Bioassay Laboratory Support Aids Japan

08.02.11 SRNL’s Lam Elected Fellow of ASME

07.19.11 Seats Available for Remainder of 2011 SRS Tour Program

07.13.11 Construction of New-Style Disposal Unit Complete

06.28.11 SRS Leadership Association (SRSLA) Awards Executive and Leader of the Year

06.22.11 SRNL Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award

06.02.11 SRS Employees Donate Food to Golden Harvest Food Bank

05.25.11 Dr. Joan Woodard to Chair SRNL External Advisory Board

05.17.11 Research Collaboration Wins SRNL National Recognition

05.12.11 Pre-Registration Opens for 2011 Future City Competition

05.10.11 “STEP” into the Environmental Park at SRS

5.02.11 SRR achieves milestone in waste tank removal

04.11.11 SRNL Receives National Safety Council Award

03.23.11 SRNL’s Rawls Elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers

03.09.11 Outstanding Melter Production

03.08.11 2011 Science and Engineering Fair Regional Competition: Leading Area Students to Careers in Science, Technology and Engineering

02.28.11 Robotics Now Taking Waste Samples in Tight Areas

02.23.11 Recovery Act's HWCTR Project Empty of Equipment, Ready for Grouting

02.15.11 SRR Tank 48 Project Achieves Major Milestone for Material Procurement

02.09.11 Savannah River Site Makes Progress on Recovery Act-funded Cleanup

02.09.11 DOE's National Science Bowl® Kicks off February 12, 2011

02.02.11 Recovery Act Funds Test Reactor Dome Removal in Historic D&D Project

01.31.11 SRNL Demonstrating Low-Energy Remediation with Patented Microbes

01.26.11 Laboratories, Universities, Unite to Build Radioecology Expertise

01.19.11 Savannah River National Laboratory Completes Injury-Free Year

01.12.11 SRNL’s Poirier Elected Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers

01.04.11 SRS Blood Drives Save Thousands of Lives

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