Deactivation & Decommissioning News

An EM priority project in 2022 continues to earn accolades in 2023.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) cleanup contractor UCOR recognized six small businesses at a ceremony last week for their support of EM’s cleanup mission.

EM released its Strategic Vision 2023-2033, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.

Two EM senior leaders visited southern Nevada recently to learn about the latest work of the EM Nevada Program and other organizations at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).

– Officials celebrated progress on a facility here last week that will give the public a new perspective of what was once the world’s largest building as they broke ground for the K-25 Viewing Platform at the East Tennessee Technology Park.

A team of designers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is using 3D laser scanning technology to gather data to help workers prepare some of the facilities on the Hanford Site for demolition.

EM crews are slated to take down hundreds of old, contaminated buildings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have shifted to soil and groundwater remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park in the homestretch of a cleanup that took down more than 500 aging, contaminated structures.