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Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR is awarding $45,000 in grants for science, technology, engineering and math projects benefiting 29 schools across the region.

Efforts to retain and recruit skilled construction trade workers took a major step forward with the signing of a project labor agreement between Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor UCOR and North America’s Building Trades Unions.

Women in science, technology, engineering, art and math fields bring a broad range of talents, skills and perspectives to EM cleanup projects across the DOE complex.

Upgrades are under way to prepare the 222-S Laboratory for the next evolution in the Hanford Site cleanup mission, treating tank waste under the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program.

EM has shipped legacy cleanup equipment to an offsite disposal facility after storing some of it at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 2006.

EM has released its program priorities for calendar year (CY) 2024, covering key cleanup actions, project construction, acquisition and other important activities that will further EM’s environmental mission.

EM crews in Oak Ridge have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex slated for demolition.

Energy conservation efforts at the Hanford Site continue to earn incentives through the Bonneville Power Administration’s Energy Efficiency Incentive program.

EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Savannah River National Laboratory.