Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded United Cleanup Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) of Germantown, MD, the Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract (ORRCC) at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Oak Ridge, TN.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor Isotek successfully completed processing and disposing the low-dose inventory of uranium (U)-233 stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) this month.
Mark Gilbertson is set to retire from federal service at the end of October following 40 years of public and private sector experience.
Crews are nearly finished deactivating the second of three collections of old, mercury-contaminated equipment surrounding the Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge.
Crews are getting ready to deactivate the final hot cell of the former Radioisotope Development Laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in advance of demolishing the structure.
EM workers are in various stages of deactivation and demolition preparation inside 23 facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12).
Recruiting the next generation of organized labor in the skilled trades is vital to EM’s important mission.
EM is preparing the next wave of buildings for demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex as part of a new chapter of cleanup in Oak Ridge.
It once housed one of the tallest, most visible buildings at East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), but now the site of the former Centrifuge Complex is cleared and ready for industrial development.
Watch this video on EM’s contributions to DOE’s $7.2 billion impact on Tennessee’s economy each year.