Cleanup & Remediation

Oak Ridge Mercury Strategy Complete, DOE Advancing Treatment Plant Design

By Photo of Mike Nartker

Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
12/5/2014
A strategy plan for dealing with mercury contamination at Oak Ridge has been completed by the Department of Energy and regulators, and DOE is moving forward with design work for a new treatment plant in hope of stating of…

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

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DOE Again Asks LM Support Services Contract Bidders to Extend Proposals

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CH2M Hill Dropping Bid For New Idaho Cleanup Contract

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Survey: Approx. 60 Percent of EM Employees Satisfied With Jobs

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

New Mexico Set to Propose $35M Fine for LANL, Separate Major Fine for WIPP

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Senate Clears Some Pending DOE Nominees, But EM-1 Choice Still in Limbo

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE Officially Releases Details on Los Alamos Cleanup Transition to EM

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DOE Again Pushes Back Deadline for Bids on New Oak Ridge TWPC Contract

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Small Businesses Call For Improvements in DOE Contracting

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Former LANL Dep. Director Suspended from Gov’t Work

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Final FY15 Defense Bill Would Lower DNFSB Employee Cap

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INTERA Drops Challenges to Navarro’s Win of New NNSS Contract

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Savannah River’s 235-F Risk Reduction Plan Delayed 29 Months

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After Acquisition and New Name, Security Firm Centerra Planning Expansion

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Final FY15 Defense Bill Would Establish Manhattan Project Park

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On WIPP

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

At River Protection

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Richland

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Los Alamos

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

At Oak Ridge

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

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