EM recently announced the selection of Laura Wilkerson as chief engineer for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and the reassignment of Erik Olds from EM’s communications director to OREM’s deputy manager.
      
EM crews in Oak Ridge have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex slated for demolition.
      
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor Isotek are moving forward on the highest priority cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): eliminating the remaining inventory of uranium-233 stored onsite.
      EM checked off the majority of its priorities for calendar year 2023, completing complex work that led to critical progress, made by possible by support from its state, tribal and local partners.
      
With 2023 in the books, DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is moving ahead with an ambitious slate of projects this year that will alter the site’s skyline, remove inventories of nuclear waste and complete a major phase of cleanup.
      
DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) logged another successful year, achieving all of its EM priorities for 2023 and advancing cleanup across the site.
      
Developing and maintaining a trained workforce is essential to continue advancing cleanup progress happening across DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation.
      
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and cleanup contractor UCOR recently hosted a new safety culture assistance team that will visit DOE worksites to identify strengths and any gaps to excellence.
      
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently held an open house event, part of its ongoing commitment to keep the public informed about cleanup progress at the Oak Ridge Reservation.
      
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) lead cleanup contractor UCOR has finished constructing the final permitted cell in Landfill V ahead of schedule.