The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) said it is making significant progress in its cleanup mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) but faces persistent challenges as it prepares for 2025.
Jessica Kunkle, who became EM-LA manager in June 2024, is leading the office’s efforts to address legacy contamination from Manhattan Project and Cold War operations.
“The best way to think about our work is we focus in three primary areas,” Kunkle said in Tuesday night’s presentation to the Los Alamos County Council. “The first is protecting water quality... The next is focused on cleaning up the land... and then the last sort of triad of our cleanup mission is focusing on waste management.”
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