Deactivation & Decommissioning News
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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
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January 14, 2020An EM crew recently finished deactivating a facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project Site after safely removing asbestos-containing material.Office of Environmental Management
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January 7, 20202020 is set to be a historic year for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM).Office of Environmental Management
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January 7, 2020Deactivation and remediation workers with FRNP recently surpassed one million work hours without a lost-time accident or illness.Office of Environmental Management
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December 17, 2019EM crews are deactivating Building K-1600, a former test and demonstration facility for uranium enrichment centrifuges.Office of Environmental Management
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December 17, 2019Workers recently demolished the former Main Plant Office Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) site.Office of Environmental Management
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December 10, 2019A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations is being demolished.Office of Environmental Management
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November 26, 2019Workers recently made progress in the deactivation and remediation of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.Office of Environmental Management