September 18, 2023
Energycast Oak Ridge – September 2023
In our September episode, we discuss OREM and UCOR completing a major EM priority for 2023. Crews just finished demolition on the Low Intensity Test Reactor, marking the second reactor taken down at the ORNL in the past year. We also discuss...
September 12, 2023
Oak Ridge Incentivizes Crews to Maintain Momentum on Crucial Cleanup Facility
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has established a new workforce retention incentive that rewards the union construction team for progress as it builds the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility.
September 5, 2023
Oak Ridge Internship Program Helps Build Future Workforce
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management contractor UCOR completed its largest ever summer intern program.
August 22, 2023
Oak Ridge Hosts U.K. Partners to Exchange Best Cleanup Practices
Leadership from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) came together recently to exchange best practices for decommissioning facilities and a host of other cleanup topics.
August 21, 2023
Energycast Oak Ridge - August 2023
In our August episode, we attend the groundbreaking for EMDF and we talk with the partners that made it possible. We also learn about a partnership underway with Oak Ridge National Laboratory that’s exploring...
August 15, 2023
EM Readies Y-12 Facility for Teardown at Oak Ridge
EM crews have completed major deactivation efforts on a Manhattan Project-era facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex scheduled for demolition next year.
August 8, 2023
Oak Ridge Breaks Ground for Crucial Infrastructure, Achieving EM Priority
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR accomplished an EM priority four months ahead of schedule when they broke ground on the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) last week.
August 3, 2023
DOE breaks ground on major infrastructure project enabling cleanup progress to continue in Oak Ridge
National, state, and local leaders joined OREM and its lead cleanup contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), this week to celebrate the groundbreaking for the Environmental Management Disposal Facility
July 25, 2023
Oak Ridge Sets Pace of Cleanup Nationwide
Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites.
July 18, 2023
Oak Ridge Kicks Off Landfill Expansion Project
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM) lead cleanup contractor, UCOR, has started constructing the final permitted cell in Landfill V.