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AIKEN, S.C. – A Savannah River Site (SRS) laboratory and contractor are developing an innovative process to better understand how radionuclides leach out of the low-level radioactive waste form called saltstone over long periods of time.

AIKEN, S.C. – Rabbits, pigs and snakes are found in the waste treatment facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS) — but not the kind requiring calls to animal control.

AIKEN, S.C. – The DOE Savannah River Operations Office (DOE-SR) awarded its management-and-operations contractor an overall rating of “very good” for its fiscal year (FY) 2016 performance in an award fee determination scorecard.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Community leaders and area economic development officials joined DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee (CROET) on Dec. 8 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of an innovative program designed to attract new industries and jobs to a former uranium enrichment complex.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) has issued new award fee determinations for three of its prime contractors, including the contractor responsible for deactivation services at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and the outgoing operating contractor for EM’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants.

WEST VALLEY, N.Y. – EM Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto congratulated the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) workforce for an extraordinarily successful 2016 at an employee celebration Dec. 12.

EM Update recently spoke with Stuart MacVean, the new president and chief executive officer of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the management and operations contractor at DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) and its EM program, about his new role and the contractor’s objectives and challenges ahead.

RICHLAND, Wash. – As demolition work continues at the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford Site, workers with EM contractor CH2M Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) remove part of the fourth floor of the Plutonium Reclamation Facility (PRF).

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – EM’s Idaho Site recently marked two significant cleanup accomplishments after workers retrieved the final drums of waste in two projects.

AIKEN, S.C. – EM’s Savannah River Site liquid waste contractor revamped its conduct of operations training with interactive modules to refocus the workforce on the importance of performing work in a deliberate, disciplined and structured manner.