OREM News Archive

In this issue of EM Update, we're highlighting equipment and facilities that support EM cleanup as part of National Infrastructure Week, May 14-21.

Workers have finished demolition of the ETTP's Central Neutralization Facility, which once treated the site’s industrial wastewater.

The lead environmental cleanup contractor for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management recently celebrated a significant milestone.

OREM recently completed installing vents and sample ports in the final drums of legacy transuranic waste stored at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Manager Jay Mullis recently joined about 100 high school students to discuss the importance of public service.

DOE’s OREM and its cleanup contractor UCOR have completed one of the final steps to ensure a highly contaminated building at ORNL remains safe.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its cleanup contractor URS|CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) finished removing more than 25,000 feet

Jay Mullis, manager of DOE’s OREM, speaks to junior and senior high school students participating in Youth Leadership Oak Ridge.

DOE has presented the Facility Representative of the Year Award annually since 1995 to recognize exceptional performance.

Oak Ridge has more higher-risk excess contaminated facilities than any other DOE site in the nation, but recent demolition projects are changing that.

Federal project directors recently took members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board on a tour to view DOE’s excess contaminated facilities.

Soil remediation has become a larger part of cleanup at ETTP since workers safely demolished many of the contaminated and unneeded buildings.

OREM cleanup contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge is accepting proposals from area schools for grants to fund instructional STEM projects.

EM and its contractors across the DOE complex invest hundreds of millions of dollars each fiscal year in the communities and states that host them.

DOE cleanup contractor UCOR has awarded three subcontracts totaling $5.3 million to construct and fabricate exhibits for the K-25 History Center.

Oak Ridge’s EM program and cleanup contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) have begun demolishing the Central Neutralization Facility at ETTP.

OREM awarded Strata-G Solutions a contract to perform environmental sampling in support of efforts to construct additional onsite disposal capacity.

A longstanding cleanup goal is now within view at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP).

OREM cleanup contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) earned almost $3.3 million for its performance from April through September 2017.

OREM posted another strong year in 2017—pushing forward on efforts that are removing economic barriers and enabling important DOE missions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In late December, EM published its 2017 Year in Review, outlining cleanup achievements across the DOE complex.

Workers recently demolished a sanitary sewage treatment facility, moving the DOE’s OREM closer to completing major cleanup at ETTP by 2020.

Lawmakers, environmental regulators, and top DOE officials broke ground on the Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

EM Update recently spoke with the new manager of the Oak Ridge Office of EM (OREM) about his vision and priorities for the EM program at OREM.

On Nov. 20, DOE broke ground on a new Mercury Treatment Facility at Y-12 that will enable large scale cleanup at the site.