A South Carolina elected official recently paid a visit to the Savannah River National Laboratory. Gov. Henry McMaster visited and toured the national lab April 18 according to his public calendar.
The creation of a new tool has moved the Savannah River Site's liquid waste contractor a step closer to closing some of the tanks holding nuclear waste. A team led by Construction Superintendent Tony Smith and Discipline Engineer Beau Nichols invented a tool to remove obstructions that could have prevented the installation of a mixing pump used for waste removal and tank closure, Savannah River Mission Completion announced Wednesday afternoon.
The most recently completed Saltstone Disposal Unit at the Savannah River Site was completed $60 million under budget and seven months ahead of schedule. The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management recently authorized Saltstone Disposal Unit 9 to begin operations, completing the last step before the unit can begin to accept decontaminated salt solution.
The National Nuclear Security Administration is one step closer to producing plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site. Workers recently completed the installation of a temporary heating, ventilating and air conditioning system in the building that will house the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions announced Tuesday morning.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration has a new field office manager at the Savannah River Site.
Aiken will receive $3 million from the federal funding bill President Joe Biden signed into law last Saturday. The bill allocates $3 million to the city for Croft Mill sewer basin improvements, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., announced.
February 29 may only come around once every four years but the date is still important in the history of the Savannah River Site.
Most people can't visit the Savannah River Site, located 20 miles south of Aiken, but they can visit the Savannah River Site Museum in downtown Aiken to get a glimpse of what goes on behind the fences.
The chairman of the U.S. House subcommittee responsible for funding the Department of Energy had nothing but praise for Aiken and the Savannah River Site when he visited Thursday evening. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., spoke at The Willcox in downtown Aiken as he helped kick off Congressman Joe Wilson's reelection campaign.
Three Savannah River Site projects rank among the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management's top priorities for 2024.
The federal fiscal year ended and the performance grades for the contractors at the Savannah River Site have been released.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster remains supportive of the Savannah River National Laboratory.
The Department of Energy is nearing the production of the first war reserve plutonium pit, the No.2 official in the National Nuclear Security Administration said recently. Los Alamos National Laboratory is hoping to produce the first war reserve plutonium pit this year, Frank Rose, principal deputy director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said during a Jan. 8 visit to the Savannah River Site.
A spacecraft powered by Savannah River Site plutonium is experiencing a communication problem 15 billion miles from the Earth.
The National Nuclear Security Administration will soon take over management of the Savannah River Site.
A bill indicating the federal government will spend more than $2 billion on the Savannah River Site now sits on President Joe Biden's desk. The Senate and House of Representatives approved the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act this week.
A South Carolina congressman is co-leading a bill touted as being the "biggest reform in nuclear power" regulation in more than a generation.
Downtown Aiken's Savannah River Site Museum has a new exhibit.
A company with connections to the Savannah River Site is going to merge with another company. Amentum, a partner in Savannah River Mission Completion, announced it planned to merge with a newly created company consisting of the critical mission systems business of Jacobs, an international professional technical services firm based in Dallas.
A Savannah River National Laboratory researcher recently won a national award.
The budget for the Savannah River Site could increase in coming years, a federal official said Friday.
A group helping Savannah River Site retirees navigate Medicare and their benefits is looking for a new home. The Savannah River Site Retiree Association Retiree Resource Center's lease for space at the Lower Savannah Council of Government building on Wagener Road expired Sept. 30, Manager Laureen Fineman told the Aiken City Council Monday evening.
During the Savannah River Site CSRA College Night on Sept. 14, thousands of students filled the James Brown Arena in search of higher education opportunities, apprenticeships and future career paths. Fifteen local high school seniors won scholarships totaling $15,000.
The Savannah River National Laboratory could sign a lease of up to 30 years if the city of Aiken goes ahead with building a 36,000-square-foot mixed-use building downtown.
Workers began installing steel beams Friday at the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, a 60,000-square-foot facility being built between USC Aiken's campus and Trolley Line Road. Less than 2 miles southwest, workers have also started building the Parker's Kitchen at the former Dick Smith property near the intersection of the bypass and Jefferson Davis Highway.
A former Savannah River Site employee will help determine how much money the Department of Energy-owned site gets during the next fiscal year. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., recently named U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to a conference committee tasked with resolving the differences between the Senate and House versions of the National Defense Authorization Act.
The effort to remove plutonium from the Savannah River Site and South Carolina is ahead of schedule, the Department of Energy announced Tuesday.
The department's Office of Environmental Management said Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the operator and manager of the Savannah River Site, recently completed its 100th plutonium downblend in 2023. The office added SRNS employees are set processing plutonium that was slated to be processed next year.
Work continues to transform the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in a plutonium pit production facility.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control issued an air quality construction permit for the facility Aug. 10, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions and the National Nuclear Security Administration announced Tuesday.
Savannah River National Laboratory recently appointed Dr. Daren Timmons as director of industrial and strategic partnerships, a position that will lead the creation of a framework for greater collaboration between SRNL, industry and other non-academic entities.
Curious to see what the nuclear industry is all about, rising college senior from Texas, Jinju Philip, found his way to an internship with Savannah River Mission Completion.
Three recent graduates from USC Aiken hired on full-time at the Savannah River Site after completing their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Capstone project sponsored by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions fire protection engineers.
A test is underway to make sure the ninth Saltstone Disposal Unit at the Savannah River Site can hold up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution.
The Savannah River Site's liquid nuclear waste contractor is nearing the halfway point in a plan that is expected to save taxpayers $100 million.
The manager and operator of the Savannah River Site has a new president and CEO.
Over 10% of the light duty vehicles at the Savannah River Site are now electric.
The Savannah River National Laboratory will play a role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor's effort to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a carbon-free source of energy. Vahid Majidi, Savannah River National Laboratory director, said at the Aiken Chamber of Commerce First Friday breakfast the national lab is responsible for designing, fabricating and testing the reactor's exhaust system.
The protests are over and the time for working has begun: Centerra recently began a new five-year contract at the Savannah River Site.
Klaus Fuchs, George Koval, Theodore Hall, David Greenglass, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman connect the Savannah River Site to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.
The Department of Energy intends to dispose of certain contaminated process equipment from the Savannah River Site at a Texas waste depository.
The eight saltstone disposal unit at the Savannah River Site is open for business three years ahead of schedule. The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management recently authorized the unit to begin operation.
The man who has entered into an agreement to purchase the old Aiken County Hospital would like the Savannah River National Laboratory’s workforce development center to be constructed on the historic building’s property.
Stuart MacVean, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions president and CEO since 2016, informed employees he will to retire in a few weeks.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions has one less parent company.
Environmental Management Operations employees of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the managing and operating contractor at the Savannah River Site, recently acquired mobile training laboratories to assist their continuous training efforts and to strengthen their Conduct of Operations and Hu…
For almost four decades, DOE’s Savannah River Site and the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center at USC Aiken have partnered to bring science, technology, engineering and math education to area students.
It's not a new mission but the Savannah River Site could be getting another new facility.
One hundred eighty student interns representing 59 colleges and 15 states recently earned a spot in the Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Summer Internship Program. The interns will engage with a variety of disciplines within SRNS, including engineering, computer science, physical sciences, b…
As it draws plans for a mixed-use facility in downtown Aiken that could house Savannah River National Laboratory's workforce development center, city officials might use the same model employed to construct the Amentum Building.
Claflin University students recently traveled from Orangeburg to tour the Savannah River Site in order to learn about the wide array of facilities and occupations found across the 310 square-mile U.S. Department of Energy environmental reservation.
Could the Savannah River Site play a role in helping to secure American's energy supply?
The city of Aiken will soon receive the funds it needs to construct a workforce development center for the Savannah River National Lab in downtown Aiken.
The National Nuclear Security Administration is looking for a new person to head its field office at the Savannah River Site.
The contract to construct a workforce development center for the Savannah River National Laboratory in downtown Aiken could be signed in two months.
Former Savannah River Site employees volunteer to help other site retirees receive Medicare benefits
A group of former Savannah River Site employees have managed to save their former co-workers $7.1 million as those co-workers make the transition from the site's medical plan to a Medicare-based retirement medical plan.
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