Read the 2025 edition of the Cleanup Progress Report to learn about the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's ongoing and recently completed projects.
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management
November 17, 2025
minute read time
Read the 2025 edition of the Cleanup Progress Report to learn about the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's ongoing and recently completed projects.
A summary of the topics is included below.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Workers demolish Graphite Reactor support facility
- Portion of final 3026 hot cell demolished
- Isotek exceeds annual U-233 processing goals
- Isotope Row prepped for demolition
Y-12 National Security Complex
- Demolition reaches halfway point on Alpha-2 complex
- Declassification effort saves millions of dollars
- Deactivation progressing at former enrichment buildings
East Tennessee Technology Park
- Final ETTP Zone 2 fieldwork initiated
- Groundwater remediation prep underway
- K-25 Interpretive Center opens
- ETTP becoming hub for nuclear innovation
Waste Management
- Groundwater monitoring underway at EMDF
- TWPC processing, shipping waste off reservation
- Advanced technologies assisting in remediation