Deactivation & Decommissioning News
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March 17, 2020EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office is set to make the first major skyline change later this year with demolition beginning on the X-326 building.Office of Environmental Management
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March 10, 2020Workers recently sent a robotic crawler on an advance scouting mission to ensure the safety of crews preparing an aging structure.Office of Environmental Management
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March 3, 2020Hundreds of community members and former workers weathered subfreezing temperatures Feb. 27 to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony.Office of Environmental Management
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February 25, 2020EM crews have started tearing down the second of four sections of the Centrifuge Complex at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park.Office of Environmental Management
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February 25, 2020EM is taking steps to demolish a distinctive red-and-white exhaust stack used for a small research reactor DOE shut down more than 20 years ago.Office of Environmental Management
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February 11, 2020The Hanford Site facility that produced two thirds of the nation’s Cold War-era plutonium no longer exists.Office of Environmental Management
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February 11, 2020Demolition is underway on the last laboratory facility remaining at Oak Ridge's East Tennessee Technology Park.Office of Environmental Management
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January 28, 2020Seventy-five years ago, a Hanford worker supporting the site’s plutonium enrichment effort was reading the latest from the European Theater of WW II.Office of Environmental Management
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January 21, 2020A pond-like basin built in the early years of the Cold War was recently re-mediated.Office of Environmental Management
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January 14, 2020The skyline at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) continually changes as EM completes demolitions.Office of Environmental Management