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High-Temperature neutron flux detectors for Generation IV reactors and SMRs
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) crews recently finished installing about 1,300 feet of new waste transfer lines between a tank waste evaporator and a nearby tank farm at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, near Richland, Wash. WRPS is the tank operations contractor for the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM).
Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a...
CLEAN SMART bill reintroduced in Senate
Senators Ben Ray Luján (D., N.M.) and Tim Scott (R., S.C.) have reintroduced legislation aimed at leveraging the best available science and technology at U.S. national laboratories to support...
Oak Ridge completes demolition of Alpha-2 enrichment facility
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced it had completed the largest demolition project yet at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., when it...
DOE saves $1.7M transferring robotics from Portsmouth to Oak Ridge
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said it has transferred four robotic demolition machines from the department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio to Oak Ridge, Tenn.,...
DNFSB spots possible bottleneck in Hanford’s waste vitrification
While the Department of Energy recently celebrated the beginning of hot commissioning of the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), which has begun immobilizing the...
Hanford completes 20 containers of immobilized waste
The Department of Energy has announced that the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has reached a commissioning milestone, producing more than 20 stainless steel...
Oak Ridge worker’s insight leads to $16M in demolition project savings
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said it was insight and a questioning attitude from a project manager that led the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management...
DOE considers recycling Paducah’s contaminated nickel
The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office is weighing options on reprocessing approximately 9,700 tons of contaminated nickel being stored at the former Paducah Gaseous...
Demolition begins on Portsmouth’s largest processing building
Workers have begun demolishing the massive X-333 Process Building at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced. The largest of...
DOE seeks proposals for AI data centers at Paducah
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from U.S. companies to build and power AI data centers on the DOE’s...
