Deactivation & Decommissioning News

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and its contractor at the Idaho Cleanup Project have removed an important support structure.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractor UCOR have kicked off the second phase of demolition at the Alpha-2 complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex, starting with teardown of the largest structure yet at the complex.

Crews at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently completed the single largest demolition project in Idaho Cleanup Project history three months ahead of schedule and under budget.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has completed 75% of the Main Plant Process Building demolition at the West Valley Demonstration Project as its cleanup contractor at the site exceeds 1 million work hours without a lost-time illness or injury since April last year.

A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management team is set to decommission and demolish a second submarine reactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory Site’s Naval Reactors Facility.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management decontamination and demolition crews are using innovative technologies and techniques to safely and efficiently demolish two defueled naval nuclear propulsion plant prototypes at the Naval Reactors Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory Site.

Cleanup crews are making steady progress on deactivation projects across Oak Ridge National Laboratory to prepare for the next wave of demolitions as they continue transforming the site.

For the first time in 70 years, crews at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Paducah Site recently opened storage tanks used in the uranium enrichment process.

Crews at Oak Ridge recently achieved a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management 2024 priority by initiating demolition on a facility in the Manhattan Project-era Alpha-2 complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Crews are reducing risk at the Reduction Oxidation Plant, one of five former plutonium production facilities at the Hanford Site.