OREM News Archive

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.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is on the verge of a new era of processing radioactive waste.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor, UCOR, are celebrating reaching Vision 2020 next month.

Crews recently achieved a key milestone by removing all asbestos from a building being deactivated for demolition.

Construction is underway on the $10 million Sludge Processing Mock Test Facility.

EM mission was on full display last week at the eighth annual Small Business Awards Breakfast.

A special op-ed featured in Knox News Sentinel from Paul Dabbar about cleanup success in Oak Ridge

Today, the US DOE’s Office of EM issued a Draft Request for Proposals for the ORRCC procurement at the ORR, in Oak Ridge, TN.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR have begun transitioning its ETTP workforce to new cleanup project.

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