Deactivation & Decommissioning News

OREM and cleanup contractor UCOR have safely completed the demolition of the K-1232 Chemical Recovery Facility at the East Tennessee Technology Park.

An EM-sponsored scientist has been selected for the 2019 Waste Management Symposia (WMS) Young Professional Award.

DOE OREM and cleanup contractor UCOR have completed demolition of the West Column Exchange equipment at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

As crews near completion of the East Tennessee Technology Park cleanup, OREM is preparing to begin major work at the Oak Ridge National Lab and Y-12.

Last week, workers began pulling up the foundation slab of the former K-29 gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment building.

Workers continued cleanup progress after recently removing a 2,000-pound dust collector from a facility slated for demolition at EM’s WVDP Site.

OREM and its cleanup contractor UCOR have demolished 5 buildings in the Poplar Creek area of ETTP since last year, and one more will soon be added.

Demolition-related activities resumed last week at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) on the Hanford Site.

EM and its cleanup contractor at WVDP commended workers for safely completing demolition of the first vitrification facility built in the U.S.

Crews last week successfully completed safe demolition of the 10,000-square-foot vitrification plant.