05/22/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/22/2023 14:19
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management has released its Strategic Vision 2023-2033, a blueprint of the office's anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade. DOE-EM said the strategic vision is focused on the priorities of addressing radioactive liquid tank waste, demolishing contaminated buildings, remediating contaminated soil and groundwater, and safely managing and disposing of waste.
"The Strategic Vision 2023-2033 is intended to help us gaze further out to a place we want to be in the future," DOE-EM senior advisor William "Ike" White said. "It sets EM on a course that will span a decade and inspire us all to achieve EM's vital nuclear cleanup mission."
Background: This is DOE-EM's fourth update to its 10-year strategic vision document and comes as the office continues to pivot from large-scale cleanup projects to preparing sites for community reuse and reindustrialization. According to DOE-EM, this current update was developed through outreach and with feedback from regulators, tribal nations, DOE-EM advisory boards, local communities, and other partners.
The office is targeting four of its sites for completion of legacy cleanup activities in the coming decade: the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project in Utah; the EM-Nevada mission at the Nevada National Security Site; the Sandia National Laboratories site in New Mexico; and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory site in California.
With the announcement last year that it had completed cleanup work at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, DOE-EM currently has 15 active sites where cleanup work is ongoing.
The goals: The following points are included in DOE-EM's vision for its cleanup sites over the next decade:
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management has released its Strategic Vision 2023-2033, a blueprint of the office's anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade. DOE-EM said the strategic vision is focused on the priorities of addressing radioactive liquid tank waste, demolishing contaminated buildings, remediating contaminated soil and groundwater, and safely managing and disposing of waste.