OREM News Archive

OREM recently received authority to conduct work inside five buildings at ORNL and Y-12.

EM’s cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park took a major step forward with removal of the Centrifuge Complex in late July.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR have begun demolishing Building K-1600.

Workers recently finished removing contaminated soil under a section of the former Building K-25 footprint in another major action

DOE has signed a two-year contract extension with UCOR to maintain its environmental cleanup progress in Oak Ridge.

On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion occurred more than 200 miles south of Los Alamos in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its contractor UCOR are preparing to demolish the remaining structures associated with Building 3026.

A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations has been removed.

Upgrades and construction are progressing at Building 2026.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $10.4 million for its performance from October 2019 through March 2020.

Workers have completed deactivating Building K-1600, and now it is ready for demolition.

OREM awarded Management Solutions, LLC a four-year contract to provide business and administrative support from 2020-2024.

Workers accomplished a major feat during one of the largest and final demolition projects at the East Tennessee Technology Park.

The Oak Ridge Office of EM (OREM) has conducted large-scale demolition at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) for nearly 15 years.

EM made steady progress in its cleanup mission after most field sites moved into an essential mission-critical operating posture beginning mid-March.

Demolition has resumed on the Centrifuge Complex at Oak Ridge's East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) after an almost two-month pause.

EM workers are making progress upgrading aging radiological wastewater treatment infrastructure essential to Oak Ridge National Laboratory operations.

Oak Ridge’s EM program and two of its contractors, UCOR and Isotek, recently supported a local middle school’s STEM night.

Hundreds of community members and former workers weathered subfreezing temperatures Feb. 27 to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The K-25 History Center celebrated its grand opening with a public ribbon-cutting ceremony adjacent to the original building’s foundation in Oak Ridge

EM crews have started tearing down the second of four sections of the Centrifuge Complex at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park.

Oak Ridge workers building the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility recently achieved a safety milestone.

The Oak Ridge Chapter of Blacks in Government (BIG) is sponsoring the 26th Annual BIG Scholarship Luncheon on February 18.

Demolition is underway on the last laboratory facility remaining at Oak Ridge's East Tennessee Technology Park.

A number of prime cleanup contractors across the EM complex exceeded annual goals for subcontracting with small businesses.