Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) News

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management enters a new chapter in cleanup this year that will transform the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

EM workers provided feedback and lessons learned to help develop a new box to contain materials for disposal as they decontaminate the walls.

DOE officials approved the transfer of the former Separations Process Research Unit.

Workers have begun activities to prepare for the demolition of a nuclear reactor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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.

Crews prepared a large demolition excavator for the installation of a long-reach arm as they readied for the future teardown.

Additional air monitoring stations are being installed that will enhance environmental and radiological data collection during demolition.

Workers accomplished one of EM’s 2020 priorities after safely tearing down the last of 10 buildings at the Radioactive Materials Handling Facility.

Today, DOE announced several significant steps to continue progress in the cleanup of Area IV of the SSFL in Ventura County, California

EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor CH2M HILL have begun filling the first of three aging underground structures on the Hanford Site.

UCOR are conducting a critical review of remediation measures in place across the Oak Ridge Reservation virtually.

EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) recently began grouting a large underground cell at the West Valley Demonstration Project

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management is set to begin cleanup of a first-of-a-kind experimental reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

While adapting operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, EM has continued closing in on a key 2020 priority to begin demolition at the Portsmouth Site.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR are finalists in the 2020 Washington Exec Pinnacle Awards.

Demolition crews at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently demolished an acid recovery cell airlock and lift table.