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AIKEN, S.C. – EM and contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) are making progress cleaning up coal ash generated over decades at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

LAS VEGAS – EM’s Gustave “Bud” Danielson is the first recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA) Committee Outstanding Service Medal.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Crucial equipment within EM’s Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho Site is being redesigned and is scheduled for testing this month.

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) recently awarded a subcontract to design and fabricate a cask storage system for more than 1,900 highly radioactive cesium and strontium capsules.

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is combing the world for ways to make the vitrification of nuclear and chemical waste at the Hanford Site quicker, safer, more efficient and less expensive.

AIKEN, S.C. – EM and contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) are using 60 acres of trees as a living, sustainable remediation system to remove low-level contamination from groundwater at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) recently developed and launched a new training platform that shares lessons learned, company policies, procedure changes and other essential information with all workers.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. – EM Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto reviewed progress in the open-air demolition of Building G2 during a recent visit to the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) nuclear facility.

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office and contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company are making final preparations to safely and compliantly demolish the Plutonium Reclamation Facility (PRF), the first of four main Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) buildings to be demolished at the Hanford Site.

PIKETON, Ohio – An alternative approach to determine how much remaining uranium is in piping and equipment should reduce time safely preparing the EM Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant’s three massive process buildings for demolition.