WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, N. Huntington, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending January 12, 2024 Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR): A DOE Senior Review Board met to consider a proposed Safety Evaluation Report (SER) based on the contractor's submitted amend  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2024: * * * A low-salinity Bay Area estuary ecosystem is producing higher-than-expected levels of methane * * * As sea levels rise due to global warming, ecosystems are being altered. One small silver lining, scientists believed, was that the tidal wetlands found in estuaries might produce less methane - a potent greenhouse gas - as the increasi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Partnerships were a major theme when EM Senior Advisor William "Ike" White traveled to Oak Ridge last week. White and others from EM headquarters visited teams from other DOE programs, federal agencies and private companies working with EM to advance cleanup. His first day included multiple stops at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORN  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The biggest snowstorm in more than three decades here amid single-digit temperatures presented several challenges to EM's operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Thanks to pre-storm preparation, response and coordination with cleanup contractor UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management was able to continue critical operations and made it  more