Deactivation & Decommissioning News

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.

After months of training, field demonstrations and operational drills, workers at EM’s Paducah Site have demonstrated the safe and compliant operation of new equipment to compact components.

EM contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) hosted a delegation from Canada’s cleanup program recently to share its environmental remediation and waste management successes and challenges at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.

New members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) are benefiting from a return to an in-person orientation and tour of major cleanup across the Oak Ridge Reservation for the first time since the coronavirus.

Performing work on tall structures presents unique challenges. But when they’re also aging, they bring an even greater dimension to planning.

Members of the West Valley Citizen Task Force met with EM representatives last week in Washington, D.C., to discuss the group’s priorities and challenges.

The skyline in the heart of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is changing again as workers begin to demolish a once world-famous reactor.

Crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently demolished two contaminated buildings that supported the Hanford Site’s plutonium-production mission during the 1950s and 1960s.