Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) News

Harold Conner is pictured at the K-25 Building footprint at Oak Ridge. He began working at the K-25 Site as a chemical engineering co-op student in the 1960s.
Harold Conner has been a force behind many accomplishments at DOE for more than 50 years. In a career that has come full circle, he has a unique distinction of supporting uranium enrichment operations and then leading efforts related to its cleanup at OR.
Officials from EM and the Office of Naval Reactors (NR) mark the transfer of the Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse (S1W) prototype facility from NR to EM on Jan 27.
EM is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental cleanup at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
Here, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions personnel manage the demolition of structures and steam lines that crisscrossed this major remediation project.
EM and its contractors at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently achieved their 4,000th environmental cleanup milestone under a state-issued hazardous and mixed-waste permit and an agreement enacted by state and federal regulators.