Deactivation & Decommissioning News

While 2020 was an unusual and challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also one of the most notable and accomplished for DOE.

EM workers have demolished two of the final eight DOE-owned buildings remaining at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site.

EM is scheduled this year to remove 750,000 Pounds of R-114 refrigerant, commonly known as Freon, from the Paducah Site.

Workers for the deactivation and decommissioning prime contractor at the Portsmouth Site recently celebrated 4 million safe work hours without a lost.

Closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s largest building,

EM continues to make progress on its 2020 priorities. EM Update is highlighting accomplishments in EM’s priority groups through the end of this year.

Reuse of transport platforms — large elevator-like devices installed outside facilities that allow workers to access multiple floors.

EM crews began taking down the remaining facilities located in the former Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.

The final dump truck delivering limestone gravel came and went, setting the stage for the closure of a 12-acre legacy coal yard.

UCOR were honored Nov. 12 with the Government Team Project of the Year Award.