Deactivation & Decommissioning News

EM has selected Joel Bradburne to serve as field manager of the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Kentucky.

EM is moving forward with full-scale deactivation of an unused, deteriorating facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge after workers successfully isolated potentially hazardous energy sources inside the building.

EM is set to complete the 69th building demolition at the West Valley Demonstration Project early next year when crews finish knocking down the last structure standing that supported operations at the former Main Plant Process Building.

On Oct. 1, 2021, EM completed demolition of the final 18 DOE-owned buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California.

EM’s Paducah Site is constructing a key facility in the cleanup of the former gaseous diffusion plant.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a subcontract worth about $3.3 million to Kennewick, Washington-based Apollo Mechanical to advance important risk-reduction work.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) completed the ambitious goals laid out for the site in EM’s 2021 priorities.

Construction of a new water treatment facility has begun on the Hanford Site, in support of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program and future cleanup work at the site.

With Old Man Winter knocking at the door, EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is preparing the Hanford Site’s 324 Building to continue important risk-reduction work as the weather turns colder.

Crews are nearly finished deactivating the second of three collections of old, mercury-contaminated equipment surrounding the Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.