OREM News Archive

Five University of Tennessee students are helping design tools for Oak Ridge’s cleanup.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management enters a new chapter in cleanup this year that will transform the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $28 million for its performance from April 2020 through September 2020.

While 2020 was an unusual and challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also one of the most notable and accomplished for DOE.

The new ORRCC contract is anticipated to be an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a 10-year ordering period.

EM crews at Oak Ridge have laid protective soil over a 9-acre parcel at East Tennessee Technology Park.

Reuse of transport platforms — large elevator-like devices installed outside facilities that allow workers to access multiple floors.

What’s the safest way to climb and inspect a 70-year-old, 250-foot-tall brick exhaust stack?

EM crews began taking down the remaining facilities located in the former Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.

UCOR were honored Nov. 12 with the Government Team Project of the Year Award.

EM’s cleanup at Oak Ridge is supported by numerous vehicles that ship waste, transport personnel, and deliver items.

UCOR are conducting a critical review of remediation measures in place across the Oak Ridge Reservation virtually.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management is set to begin cleanup of a first-of-a-kind experimental reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor Isotek are resuming uranium (U)-233 processing.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR are finalists in the 2020 Washington Exec Pinnacle Awards.

Dan Brouillette joined state & community leaders in Oak Ridge to celebrate the historic first-ever removal of a former uranium enrichment complex.

A decades-long effort to clean and transform the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant is complete.

The K-25 site, now called the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), was built in 1943 in a rural region of East Tennessee.

Almost 25 years ago, when the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant sat shuttered with dilapidated, contaminated buildings.

While DOE’s OREM celebrates a historic achievement at ETTP, more work is needed to address old, contaminated structures and modernize other portions.

From a more efficient approach for disposing debris to a digital-based monitoring system that helps detect and prevent heat stress.

Several generations of employees have worked at the former K-25 site, supporting efforts to produce enriched uranium, and to clean up the site.

Members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) expressed pride as DOE’s OREM transformed ETTP for new uses they helped chart.

The final unneeded structure at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) has been torn down.

Oak Ridge crews have removed unneeded buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park.