Cleanup & Remediation

SPRU Effectively Finished, Hanford Reclamation to Last to 2075

By Photo of Wayne Barber

While remediation is nearly complete at a couple of the 16 sites overseen by the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, other cleanup efforts could last late into this century, according a roundup included in the Donald Trump administration’s…

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Hanford vit plant turns 250K gallons of liquid waste into glass

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DOE hits 20% of DUF6 conversion at Portsmouth

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Washington state extends Hanford’s sitewide comments until January

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DOE reaches 20% of DUF6 conversion at Portsmouth so far

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Hanford turns 250K gallons of liquid waste into glass

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DOE marks 20th anniversary of Fernald cleanup

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Wrap Up: Amentum opens HQ in Oak Ridge; Hanford’s old water plant demo starts; Deep Isolation gets Texas permit; more

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Idaho cleanup boss ‘acting’ no more

The Department of Energy has removed “acting” from the title of Idaho Cleanup Project Manager Nick Balsmeier at the Idaho National Laboratory. “17 years ago today, I started my career at the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) as a United Steelworker (Local 652),” Balsmeier said in an Oct. 5 post on LinkedIn. “Today, I started my […]
Climate Policy & Regulation

WIR, state comment period address some of grout issues at Hanford

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DOE contractors recover equipment from Y-12 legacy facility ahead of demolition

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Wrap up: EM removes uranium mill tailings near Moab; SRPPF new gloveboxes; Holtec pauses fuel loading at Palisades

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AtkinsRéalis’ Jeff Kendall on US Nuclear Growth

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AtkinsRéalis’ Jack Craig on Nuclear Strategy

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ECA’s Seth Kirshenberg on the State of Cleanup

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