Deactivation & Decommissioning News

Roadways, railroads, water and sewage treatment facilities, a bank, a post office, a fire department, and security force — all of this made up EM’s Paducah Site more than 60 years ago.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently completed actions to stabilize three at-risk underground structures on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau.

WVDP workers are preparing to remove ductwork that carried exhaust from past operations at the Main Plant Process Building as part of deactivation preparations for the facility’s future demolition — among EM’s 2021 priorities.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently reduced the cost of treating wastewater, a vital function to EM’s cleanup mission, by consolidating capabilities into a single facility.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) will avoid millions of dollars in costs and accelerate cleanup thanks to a project that broke ground last week at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Deactivation workers at EM’s Paducah Site recently completed major modifications to the fire sprinkler system in one of the former gaseous diffusion plant’s four massive uranium-enrichment process buildings.

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently resumed key risk-reduction activities to prepare to remove contaminated soil under Hanford’s 324 Building.

EM crews have completed demolition on a contaminated 1960s-era building at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), opening land that DOE can reuse for future missions.

Crews are working to finish construction of a dedicated road at EM’s Portsmouth Site that will be used to haul demolition material to the new On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF).

EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) sold 52 no-longer-needed special purpose railroad cars to an environmental cleanup company, a transaction that benefitted the U.S Treasury and enabled the site to avoid years of maintenance costs.