At the ORNL Oak Ridge Research Reactor (Building 3042), crews have completed the reactor pool cleanup and are busy demobilizing from that activity. They have resumed removing and packaging 22,000 pounds of lead bricks from the second and third floors. The lead bricks acted as a shield around the reactor pool to provide contamination protection…
Landon Graham has been with UCOR for nearly a year. He went from laborer to concrete foremen to general foreman in just four months at the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility construction project. He has two stepdaughters and also has a new child on the way. Watch this video to see more of his sLandon…
Significant demolition progress has been made at the main Alpha-2 building at Y-12 over the last several weeks. Crews have sheared and demolished over 17,000 square feet of the facility. They have also removed the steel beams above the large electrical transformer that previously fed the building. This second phase of demo follows the successful…
At ORNL Building 3038 (Isotope Development Lab), the project team developed a new way to deploy its RADCOM team. Building 3038 is separated by an internal wall that required two separate Boundary Control Stations and four RADCON technicians to support the work there. The team built an external corridor connecting the two sides of the…
Crews on Isotope Row moved a mini excavator into Building 3118, Radioisotope Laboratory H. for the demolition of the 3031 Hot Cell. UCOR continues making great progress for @OREM toward deactivation and eventual demolition of the 12 buildings on Isotope Row, eliminating risks and freeing up valuable space on @ORNL’s Central Campus for the lab’s…
Kenneth Williams joined UCOR just a few months ago and is the company’s lead counselor in our new well-being clinic. Williams is a veteran who started his career with degrees in physics and mathematics and worked as a defense contractor. Thirty-three years ago, he made a career change to become a licensed counselor. With UCOR’s…
Crews in the Y-12 Beta-1 facility are conducting characterization and nondestructive assay surveys of potentially radiologically contaminated pipe in the basement to prepare for demolition. This work is taking place simultaneously with asbestos abatement of basement piping. Our workers continue to pump infiltrating water from the basement. Pumping out the water will allow workers to…
UCOR’s Sustainability Program and Heritage Center teams were able to certify a specific area of the site as a Monarch butterfly waystation through Monarch Watch, an education, conservation, and research organization. UCOR craft workers manage this nine-acre parcel of land in the Poplar Creek area of ETTP. It once housed some of the most contaminated…
Workers are doing a number of activities at the Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor (ORG) support facilities to get it ready for demolition next year. They are removing sludge from the Graphite Reactor Filter House canal. When completed, that effort is expected to generate almost 130 steel drums, holding 55 gallons each, of sludge waste. Workers…
Congratulations to Tommy Morgan (pictured left) and Josh Vajda (pictured right) who were honored at the 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida recently. Morgan, who works for the Chief Operating Officer group, was named to ANS’s inaugural 40 under 40 list. This competitive list recognizes 40 individuals who strengthen…
