EM LAUNCHES NEW INTERACTIVE TIMELINE OF DOE CLEANUP PROGRAM

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has launched a new interactive timeline tracing the history of DOE’s cleanup efforts. The timeline stretches from the beginning of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s to the closure of underground waste tanks at the Savannah River Site last year. “Our Internet-savvy timeline is another example of EM’s efforts to communicate the importance of the Cold War cleanup to the public and demonstrate the EM program’s value to taxpayers,” EM Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Planning and Budget Teresa Tyborowski said in a release issued yesterday. “In addition, EM’s many accomplishments laid out in this timeline attest to our program’s deep knowledge and experience in nuclear cleanup.”