Top EM Leadership to
Participate in 2016 National Cleanup Workshop
DOE-EM
March 9, 2016
The nuclear cleanup program’s leaders scheduled to take part in the workshop include Assistant Secretary Monica Regalbuto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney, and Acting Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Frank Marcinowski.
The workshop will address:
- The path forward for high-level waste at EM’s Hanford and Savannah River sites;
- Upcoming
acquisitions and procurement policy changes;
- The new approach to cleanup at EM’s Los Alamos Site;
- Industry, community, and state perspectives on the future of cleanup;
- Startup, construction, and commissioning progress in 2016;
- Decommissioning successes and lessons learned;
- Advanced robotics and other EM technology development priorities;
- Maintaining a safety conscious work environment across the EM complex;
- DOE’s new approach to project
management;
- Bringing new workers to the EM cleanup program and effective human capital management;
- EM’s path forward for defense high-level waste disposal; and
- Understanding the remaining costs in the EM program.
The workshop will bring together senior DOE executives, DOE site officials, industry executives, and other stakeholders to discuss EM’s progress on the cleanup of the environmental legacy of the nation’s Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear weapons program.
Learn more about the workshop
here.
