The Mental Wellbeing Center (MWC) celebrated its one-year anniversary last month, having successfully supported over 140 clients. Of those, over 99 percent reported improved mental well-being. This translated into significant value, with an estimated $669,000 in cost-savings from retention and $620,000 in increased productivity. The team is very proud of being able to help clients…
Did you know that UCOR has identical twins working on site? Casey Lehman, who works in IT, and Shannon Hawn, who works in the training department, are twins who grew up in Kingston. Interestingly, Casey’s husband also works for UCOR and Shannon’s husband works at Y-12. To learn more about these sisters, watch the video.
We continue our celebration of National Engineers Week and the ~100 engineers serving the cleanup mission here at UCOR. Today, we are going to hear about the engineering team for the Transuranic Waste Processing Center (TWPC). Kyle Peterson, TWPC Engineering Manager, talks about what they do and who they are in this video.
Rain is expected to move in after sunset today and continue overnight and into tomorrow. Rain will become more spotty tomorrow afternoon, eventually tapering off. Temperatures will be warming to 58 tomorrow, and in the 60s for the weekend and early next week.
To highlight the safe and successful processing of the oldest drum on the TWPC footprint, the team hosted a celebratory luncheon today. This specific drum contained radium-contaminated waste and had been on site since 2012. It had presented challenges and was moved into the hot cell in 2019. Through coordination with waste programs, the waste…
So that we can gather as much feedback as possible, we have extended the Top Workplaces survey timeframe. The survey will now be open until next Wednesday, March 4 at 5 p.m. If you haven’t completed your survey, please use this additional time to provide your insights. Help us make the UCOR workplace a great place for…
