Sixteen single-wide office trailers in the 100-K area of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site at Richland, Wash., have been torn down, DOE said Tuesday.
Hundreds of engineers and other staff at the former plutonium production complex near the Columbia River have worked at the office trailer complex since 2000, DOE said in a Tuesday announcement.
The demolition helps clear the way for additional remediation near the former K East and K West reactors, DOE said. The department posted a time-lapse video of the trailers on youtube.
State and federal agencies have agreed soil cleanup on 1,400 acres at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee is complete.
The Environmental Protection Agency, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation have signed a record of decision, DOE announced Tuesday. The decision declares that soil remediation is sufficiently complete at Zone 1 at the former K-25 gaseous diffusion plant site to clear the way for economic reuse of the land.
DOE contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge dug up 67,000 cubic yards of dirt, roughly 5,500 dump trucks worth, at the site, the department said.
A cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory has finished moving 40 baskets of spent fuel, originally from a decommissioned power reactor in Pennsylvania, into safer long term storage vaults at the lab, DOE said Tuesday.
The spent fuel moved by Amentum-led contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition came from the Peach Bottom Atomic Station, Unit 1 in Pennsylvania. The fuel came to Idaho National Laboratory in 1974 after the reactor unit was retired, DOE said. The Peach Bottom fuel will stay in dry storage until at whatever point a national waste repository is available.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, will not seek re-election, he said over the weekend after opposing President Donald Trump’s signature reconciliation bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
President Trump reportedly threatened to support a GOP primary opponent seeking to unseat Tillis. Tillis then announced in a Sunday press release that he would not seek re-election in November 2026. The bill itself ultimately passed the Senate after Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote.
Tillis was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014 after being speaker of the house in the North Carolina legislature. During his corporate career, Tillis served as an executive for PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM, according to his online biography.
