Brad Tune is serving as UCOR’s Acting Director of Critical Projects, replacing Joe Aylor, who recently accepted a new position outside of UCOR. Brad joined UCOR as Enterprise Integration Manager in 2022. His career includes experience with Bechtel National supporting the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 and with South Carolina Electric & Gas constructing nuclear…
Jeff Bass is a laborer working on the CSLM project at Beta-1 on the Y-12 footprint. He has been working at UCOR for 3 years. He and his wife have been married for 31 years and have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Jeff is also Alderman for the City of Oliver Springs. To learn more,…
Congratulations to the Water Quality Team for their TeamsCount Award. This team faced a “perfect storm” during a one-week period. Heavy rains hit just when they had a lot of samples to collect at EMWMF. Despite the tough weather, the team collected a record 1,195 samples! Many of these were big, one-gallon bottles. They also…
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8. According to medical sources, losing just one hour of sleep has the potential to disrupt your internal clock for several days. Less sunlight in the morning and more in the evening may result in later bedtimes, which can cause long-lasting sleep deficits. The time…
UCOR recently began grading the 770-embayment at the ETTP Heritage Center. Grading of this area will allow for positive drainage to return the area to its natural state with proper flow into the Clinch River. This project is anticipated to wrap up by April 2026. Workers previously removed extensive vegetation in this area. This work will…
The comprehensive characterization of the 2.5-acre Alpha-2 complex allowed for its successful deactivation and demolition (D&D), providing important information for demolition and disposition decisions. With demolition complete, characterization crews will use a Geoprobe, which is a specialized direct-push drilling rig capable of collecting soil and groundwater samples with minimal disturbance to the footprint, to characterize…
UCOR employees can now find furniture and materials available for reuse on the new Furniture ReStore space on UCOR Hub. For the past several years, UCOR has stored excess furniture and materials retrieved from project sites and leased offices at ETTP in the K-1036 A-bay. Because the availably of these items has not been effectively…
March is National Listening Awareness Month. Let’s use this opportunity to think about how well we listen to each other. Good listening is more than just hearing words. It means understanding what someone else is saying, both their words and their feelings. When we listen well and use active listening, we build stronger relationships,…
UCOR kicked off this semester’s university recruiting efforts as a top sponsor of the Tennessee Tech Engineering Fair last week. The annual spring engineering fair, the largest of three career-specific events to be held on campus this semester, brought approximately 180 prospective employers from across the southeast region to meet with students. The UCOR team…
