The Energy Department’s Environmental Management office quietly launched its own Facebook page May 25.
The official U.S. steward of legacy defense-nuclear waste cleanup will use the page to help the public “keep up to date with EM’s progress across the complex,” the agency said in a Wednesday press release.
The Environmental Management office will use several hashtags as part of its new social-media outreach: #TeardownTuesday, #WildlifeWednesday and #FlashbackFriday.
The first ever #WildlifeWednesday featured photos of large, yelping, nocturnal salamanders nearby the Savannah River Site close to Aiken, S.C., and rabbits at the Hanford site outside of Richland, Wash. The office’s first #FlashbackFriday showcased Cold War-era photos of catered lunches delivered by a contractor at Savannah River Site; racially segregated bunks from the Hanford Construction Camp; and the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a technology demonstration built as part of the Manhattan Project.
This week’s #TeardownTuesday featured a video of the demolition of the K-27 facility at Oak Ridge, which DOE expects to be completed by late summer or early fall, and pictures of crews tearing down the X-114A Outdoor Firing Range at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Piketon, Ohio.
Facebook launched in 2004 and allowed anyone over the age of 13 to join in 2006.