Workforce Spotlight: Clay Hartman
Meet Clay Hartman, a project engineer for Waste Operations. Clay helps ensure that waste shipments keep rolling as UCOR works to clean up the Oak Ridge Reservation
Characterization team hard at work
Our Characterization Operations team is collecting surface soil samples as part of their early site characterization work at the 30-acre White Wing Scrap Yard. This parcel will be the site of the recently announced Orano USA multi-billion-dollar uranium enrichment facility. Pictured are workers using hand augers to collect samples from the top two feet of…
UCOR safety pros earn national recognition
Congratulations to two of our safety & health professionals for being honored for the contributions to their field. Mel McKenzie received the President’s Award at the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Safety24 Conference and Expo. As a member of the Leadership Conference Planning Committee, Mel received the award “for transforming ASSP’s Leadership Conference into…
Alpha-2 demo gets underway with Carpentry Shop
Workers have started demolishing the Alpha-2 Complex, starting with the Carpentry Shop. The Carpentry Shop is one of four structures making up the complex. The other three are Building 9201-2, the Fusion Energy Building (referred to as Alpha-2); Building 9401-1, the Old Steam Plant Building; and Building 9501-2, a 161 kV steel transformer. Crews have…
TWPC gets approval for new waste treatment process
It’s nice to be first, or at least one of the first. That’s where the Transuranic Waste Processing Center (TWPC) is after the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) approved their new waste-treatment process for non-compliant cellulosic waste. TWPC is one of the first sites in the entire DOE complex to develop and implement a process…
UCOR wins Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Excellence Award
Congrats to our team at the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) project and our Sustainability Program team. At last week’s Tennessee Sustainability Conference, their work was recognized by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the organization’s Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Excellence Award. Specifically, the award was for best overall efforts in environmental innovation…
UCOR’s Perkes awarded DOE VPP Contractor Champions Award
For Immediate Release Contact: Chris Caldwell Christopher.Caldwell@orcc.doe.gov…
Alpha-2 team marks milestone
It’s been a long, hot summer for the team at our Y-12 Alpha-2 project, working tropical and night shifts to get the job done. But it sure is paying off. They have reached a significant milestone, getting the west side of the massive building as well as the carpenter shop 9732-2 condemned. Congratulations, team!! They…
Special Project Video: Oak Ridge Research Reactor
Watch Larry Brede, UCOR site integration and cleanup manager, and Hoss Brown, Oak Ridge Research Reactor building manager, discuss the recent accomplishments on the project. https://youtu.be/iwtQS_BetQo
Tennessee Chamber recognizes UCOR for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Excellence
For Immediate Release For more information, contact: …
