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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has updated its “By the Numbers” series of publications that track progress at clean-up sites using accessible and clear infographics. They provide facts and figures on each major EM site, plus the Savannah River National Laboratory. Each site page also discusses expected achievement over the coming decade. These are described in more detail in the Strategic Vision 2023-2033.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-updates-clean-up-statistics-10998867
US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews have begun emplacing defence-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 26 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-emplaces-waste-at-new-panel-in-wipp-and-expands-idaho-disposal-facility-10384419
The first transuranic waste has been placed in a new panel at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the capacity of a landfill disposal facility for waste and radioactively contaminated debris from decontamination and demolition work at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is to be increased.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-facilities-mark-waste-disposal-progress
Shipments of nuclear waste from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) site in eastern Idaho to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad in New Mexico have resumed following three episodes that caused New Mexico officials to suspend them. A DOE official has told Idaho officials that the New Mexico Environment Department had approved shipments from the 2,300 km2 site, which includes the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsidaho-resumes-waste-shipments-to-us-wipp-facility-10098266
The US Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Environmental Management (EM) has released its Strategic Vision outlining goals for 2022-2032 focused on safety, environmental clean-up priorities, innovation, and improved performance.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-reveals-blueprint-for-clean-up-over-the-coming-decade-9540463
The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has set out its key priorities for 2022 as it pursues its mission to achieve the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from decades of US nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-agency-sets-out-2022-cleanup-priorities
The US Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southern New Mexico confirmed on 18 August that is now receiving three to four shipments a week, most of them from the Idaho National Laboratory. Shipments finally resumed in April following an expensive recovery effort after a radiation release in 2014 contaminated part of the repository and forced its closure.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Sunday, 20 August 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-waste-repository-now-receives-several-shipments-each-week-5904365