OREM News

Remedial actions vary from tearing down buildings to digging up contaminated soil and treating groundwater plumes. Crews are working to complete an action at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by demolishing the Low Intensity Test Reactor. They are making progress, and the project is scheduled for completion this fall.
Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites.
View from July 2023 episode
In our July episode, we cover Tennessee’s new $50 million nuclear fund and newly formed Nuclear Advisory Council. Our team talks with staff responsible for completing a big cleanup task at ORNL involving...
Avery Newman, a chemical engineering major from Tennessee Tech University, is pictured with newly installed blowers for the Continuous Purge System at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
With a significant percentage of employees eligible for retirement in the next decade, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are focused on initiatives that will bring interns and graduates into the workforce to l
View from the June 2023 episode
We travel to Tennessee Tech to cover a new partnership that’s creating more internship and career opportunities for students and helping the university launch a new nuclear engineering program. We catch up with a local business that...
The host of “Energycast Oak Ridge,” Summer Dashe, interviews Roane County Executive Wade Creswell for a segment on a recent episode. The newscast covers a wide range of topics related to EM’s mission in Oak Ridge.
In the first year of producing its groundbreaking monthly news show, “Energycast Oak Ridge,” the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) took home a national award recognizing excellence in storytelling and public outreach.