DOE, UCOR demolish last piece of K-25, once the world’s largest building
It was once the world’s largest building under one roof, built by the U.S. government in less than two years as part of a top-secret race to build the world’s first atomic bombs during World War II....
View ArticleORNL, DOE, Roane State, Borchers to take part in STEM Night at Woodland
Representatives from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Roane State Community College—as well as Superintendent Bruce Borchers—will take part in a Science, Technology,...
View ArticleFleischmann to chair Congressional Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann will lead the Nuclear Cleanup Caucus, a group of lawmakers who have U.S. Department of Energy cleanup sites in their districts. Fleischmann’s...
View ArticleNevada, feds agree to discuss landfill concerns, including ORNL radioactive...
A new group of state and federal workers that was announced Tuesday could discuss contentious waste-related issues that include concerns over shipping low-level radioactive waste from a World War...
View ArticleCange named cleanup manager at DOE Oak Ridge
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that Sue Cange will serve as the new manager for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, Congressman Chuck Fleischmann said. “Sue has a...
View ArticleFleischmann and Luján to lead House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
Chairman Chuck Fleischmann, a Tennessee Republican, and Co-Chairman Ben Ray Luján, a New Mexico Democrat, announced on Thursday that they will serve as co-chairs of the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus,...
View ArticleRadioactive components removed from former reactor at ORNL
Water was found seeping from a pool at a former reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory one year ago, and in August, workers removed four irradiated components from the pool that produced about 96...
View ArticleDemolition work on K-27, last of big 5 uranium-enrichment buildings, to be...
Demolition work should be complete this month on K-27, the last of the big five buildings once used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons and commercial nuclear power plants at the former K-25 site...
View ArticleCange to move to DC to serve in interim DOE Environmental Management job
Note: This story was last updated at 2:30 p.m. Sue Cange will be moving at least temporarily to Washington, D.C., to become interim principal deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleDOE, National Park Service mark first year of Manhattan Project Park
By U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Park Service have made considerable progress in their inaugural year managing the national...
View ArticleDOE works to remove risks, prepare excess buildings for demolition at ORNL, Y-12
By DOE Office of Environmental Management The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge are taking steps to remove risks and help prepare...
View ArticleDOE: Roof repairs lower future cleanup costs at Alpha 4 at Y-12
By DOE Office of Environmental Management The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management recently finished repairs to an aging Y-12 National Security Complex building as part of an initiative that...
View ArticleDOE finishes demolishing another building at ETTP
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup contractor have finished demolishing another building at East Tennessee Technology Park, or ETTP, the former K-25 site in west Oak...
View ArticleDOE addresses high-risk facilities in Oak Ridge
A new initiative by the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management is improving safety and preparing two of the federal sites—Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex—for...
View ArticlePreparing for demolition, DOE identifies contaminants at Y-12’s Biology Complex
Biology Complex at Y-12 once housed more individuals with doctorates than anywhere else in the world The U.S. Department of Energy and its cleanup contractor finished characterizing the Biology...
View ArticleNNSA: Y-12 funding would be up 25 percent under president’s budget request
Note: This story was last updated at 4:20 p.m. Funding for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge would be up about 25 percent under the budget request submitted to Congress in May,...
View ArticlePresident’s budget: DOE cleanup funding could be up, with benefits for Oak Ridge
Note: This story was last updated at 4:30 p.m. Cleanup funding could be up for the U.S. Department of Energy under the budget request from the Trump administration for fiscal year 2018, and there...
View ArticleUpdated: Cange, former Oak Ridge cleanup manager, appointed visiting scholar...
Note: This story was updated at 12 p.m. Sue Cange, former head of the federal government’s cleanup program in Oak Ridge, has been appointed as a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University in...
View ArticleWorkers finishing cleanup at ETTP electrical switchyard
This story was originally published in the EM Update on Thursday, July 13, by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management. It was contributed by Ben Williams. The Oak Ridge...
View ArticleUCOR wins international innovation award
The federal cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge was among 11 international winners of the Environmental Health and Safety Innovation Awards. URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, or UCOR, is the cleanup contractor...
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