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Learn more about the Office of Environmental Management

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The mission of the Office of Environmental Management (EM) is to complete the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. The program is one of the largest and most diverse and technically complex environmental cleanup programs in the world and includes responsibility for the cleanup of 108 contaminated nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing sites across the United States. Specified in that responsibility is the need to:

• Safely disposition large volumes of nuclear wastes;
• Safeguard materials that could be used in nuclear weapons; and,
• Deactivate and decommission several thousand contaminated facilities no longer needed to support the Department's mission and remediate extensive surface and groundwater contamination.

Learn more about Student and Entry Level opportunities at the U.S. Department of Energy

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes the value that student interns and entry-level employees bring to our multitalented workforce.

Only here can your fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and new voices become part of the innovative solutions to save the world. We maintain a wide range of student-focused programs to keep a steady stream of bright and motivated new talent flowing into the DOE workforce.

Based on your own current circumstances and goals, you can explore the full range of opportunities offered by the DOE student programs, internships, and entry-level positions.

Learn more about Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is located in the Chihuahauan Desert of southeastern New Mexico, approximately 26 miles east of Carlsbad, NM. WIPP occupies approximately 28 square kilometers (16 square miles). The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s history is relatively short, as it became operational in 1999. The facility is used to store transuranic (TRU) waste left over from nuclear weapons research and testing operations from our past defense activities. Project facilities include disposal rooms mined 2,150 feet underground in a 2,000 square foot thick salt formation.

Learn more about the Idaho Operations Office opportunities at the U.S. Department of Energy

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The 890-square-mile DOE site on the desert 38 miles west of Idaho Falls and the expansion of research facilities in town are key National assets that are well suited to providing the infrastructure and capability to achieving our vision.

In partnership with our contractors, local and regional community, businesses, and other stakeholders, we have focused our effort over the past several years on cleaning up the legacy facilities and contamination at the INL site, and creating new missions focused on performing research and development in energy programs and national defense. Our successes have improved the trust and confidence and support of the community in the Department of Energy’s activities at the INL site.

DOE-ID oversees three major contracts to ensure that operations and research activities are carried out safely, and in compliance with laws, regulations and contract provisions. DOE-ID also performs procurement services for the department, protects and conserves government property, and performs other inherently federal functions including compliance with the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, and tribal and congressional relations.

Learn more about the OakRidge Operations Office opportunities at the U.S. Department of Energy

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Reservation is located on 37,000 acres in east Tennessee. The Oak Ridge facilities include the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Y-12 National Security Complex, and the East Tennessee Technology Park.

The Reservation was established in the early 1940’s by the Manhattan district of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The organization played a major role in the production of enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project. Soon after World War II, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor to DOE) was formed to transfer the nuclear enterprise to civilian control.

The Oak Ridge – East Tennessee Technology Park was originally built as a uranium enrichment facility for defense programs. The majority of the building sites have been inactive since uranium enrichment production ceased in 1985. The site will be closed in FY 2209.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory supported both defense production operations and civilian energy research efforts. Currently, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducts applied and basic research in energy technologies and the physical and life sciences. Cleanup includes environmental remediation, decontamination and decommissioning of radioactively-contaminated facilities, and disposition of legacy low, mixed low-level, and transuranic waste.

The Oak Ridge Y-12 site originally was a uranium processing facility. This site is now used for the dismantling of nuclear weapons components, while also serving as one of the nation’s storehouses for special nuclear materials.

The Oak Ridge Y-12 site originally was a uranium processing facility. This site is now used for the dismantling of nuclear weapons components, while also serving as one of the nation’s storehouses for special nuclear materials.

Learn more about the Office of River Protection and the Hanford site

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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State is located on 586 square miles, and sits adjacent to the Columbia River. The Hanford Site is home to 53 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste, which is the result of more than three decades of plutonium production. The DOE Office of River Protection’s (ORP) mission is to retrieve and treat Hanford’s tank waste and close the tank farms to protect the Columbia River.

The chemical and radioactive waste is currently stored in 171 large underground tanks. ORP and its tank farms contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), are removing and transferring this waste from the older 149 single-shell tanks (SST) to the newer 28 double-shell tanks (DST). This transfer of waste is to reduce the environmental risk posed by the older tanks. The cornerstone of the tank waste cleanup project at Hanford is the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP). The WTP will use a proven technology, called vitrification, to immobilize chemical and radioactive waste in an exceptionally sturdy form of glass to isolate it from the environment. Once complete, the WTP will be the largest and most capable facility of its kind in the world.

Learn more about the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office

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For approximately 50 years, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Portsmouth, Ohio and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky supported Federal Government and commercial nuclear power missions. These operations produced contaminated areas both onsite and beyond site boundaries.

The Portsmouth site is located in Piketon, Ohio on 3,700-acres owned by the Department of Energy. The plant had a long history of enriching uranium for defense and commercial nuclear power needs. Portsmouth ended enriching operations in 2201.

The Paducah site is located on 3,400-acres owned by the Department of Energy. It is located in rural western Kentucky, 15 miles west of Paducah, Kentucky near the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

Presently, the sites are transitioning from primarily enrichment operations to shared missions with environmental cleanup, waste management, depleted uranium conversion, deactivation and decommissioning, re-industrialization, and long-term stewardship.

Learn more about the Richland Operations Office and the Hanford site

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The Hanford site is located on 586 square miles of land in southeastern Washington State. The Columbia River runs through the northern portion of the site, and the City of Richland is located on the southern border.

The Hanford site was established by the Federal government in 1943 for plutonium production, chemical processing, and research and development. All of these efforts were established to support the nation’s wartime effort of producing plutonium for the world’s first nuclear weapons.

The Hanford site was established by the Federal government in 1943 for plutonium production, chemical processing, and research and development. All of these efforts were established to support the nation’s wartime effort of producing plutonium for the world’s first nuclear weapons.

Learn more about the Savannah River Site

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The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a key Department of Energy (DOE) industrial complex dedicated to the National Nuclear Security Administration program. SRS supports the DOE national security and non-proliferation programs. Additionally, SRS supports the EM program, which is a program that addresses the reduction of risks through safe stabilization, treatment, and disposition of legacy nuclear materials, spent nuclear fuel, and waste.

SRS encompasses over 300 square miles with more than 1,000 facilities concentrated within only 10 percent of the total land area. As cleanup activities are completed, operations will be concentrated to the site central core area. The land surrounding the central core area provides a protective buffer. Presently, all EM facilities and inactive waste units are being deactivated, decommissioned, and remediated. Facility decommissioning alternatives include demolition and in-situ disposal.

SRS is divided into 18 site areas, according to the types of mission activities that occurred at each. At SRS, all waste types will be treated, stored and disposed. Additionally, all nuclear material will be stabilized and safely stored. Furthermore, groundwater contaminant plumes will be remediated to meet drinking water standards.