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.
EM Assistant Secretary Anne White says she is driving the environmental cleanup program forward toward a vision of getting work accomplished safely.
Workers recently removed an estimated 20,000-pound ventilation stack from the Main Plant Process Building at EM’s WVDP Site.
Federal and contractor officials and community members stressed the critical role of partnerships as EM reduces risks to people and the environment.
EM workers at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) completed demolition of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Incinerator.
Workers are re-purposing thousands of tons of asphalt milled up from decades-old roads to resurface well-traveled gravel site arteries.
First-person account by EM Asst Secretary Anne White on her trip to Japan, attending the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation.