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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – In this issue of EM Update, we mark the Oak Ridge EM program’s world-first accomplishment: completion of decontamination, decommissioning and demolition of its uranium gaseous diffusion enrichment process buildings.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – More than 100 national, state and local officials, and 1,200 federal and contractor employees braved Tennessee’s summer heat on Aug. 30 to witness the culmination of more than a decade of decontamination, decommissioning and demo...

EM Update spoke with Sue Cange, manager of the DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, on recently completing Vision 2016 for the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) cleanup, which entailed decommissioning and demolition of five former gase...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – On Aug 30, 2016, longtime EM employees stood attentively near the demolition site watching the final portion of Building K-27 crash to the ground.

East Tennessee Technology Park by the Numbers

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The final pieces of brick and steel crashed to the ground from Building K-27, marking one of the most significant accomplishments in the Oak Ridge EM program’s history.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Jimmy Carter was coming, and there was work to be done.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – On a summer day in 1990, parking lots sit empty amid a sea of vacant buildings at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant

WASHINGTON, D.C. – DOE Chief of Staff Kevin Knobloch is set to provide a keynote address at the 2016 National Cleanup Workshop, scheduled to be held Sept.

A new report evaluating the potential for offshore wind energy development across U.S. coasts found that even if only 1% of the technical resource potential is recovered, nearly 6.5 million homes could be powered by offshore wind energy.