Workers have completed mobilization for a significant new project at the ETTP Heritage Center aimed at removing Outfall 724, which had been operating under a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. An NPDES permit is a regulatory requirement for facilities that discharge pollutants directly from point sources into the state’s surface waters. To remove…
PAhead of a forecasted 4.5 inches of rain over this past weekend, UCOR’s Waste Operations teams at ORRL and EMWMF took proactive measures to efficiently ensure safe and compliant water management at onsite landfills, critical to continuing waste disposal operations at the Oak Ridge Reservation. reparations focused on landfill wastewater, comprised of leachate and contact water, that must…
2025 was an exceptional year for UCOR with workers achieving successes across various Oak Ridge Reservation sites while maintaining a stellar safety record. Watch the video for highlights of UCOR’s 2025 performance.
To keep crews safely away from radiation, UCOR has started using the Brokk remotely operated excavator to deactivate the remaining portion of the final hot cell inside ORNL’s former Radioisotope Development Laboratory (Building 3026). This and the five other hot cells that were previously removed from the building were heavily shielded concrete rooms that protected…
The Heritage Center’s Excess Equipment Project has sent the final shipment of excess equipment to the Oak Ridge Reservation Landfills (ORRL), wrapping up this important project. Crews characterized, dismantled, size-reduced, packaged, and loaded more than 100 pieces of heavy equipment used during ETTP demolition that were radiologically contaminated or at the end of the equipment’s…
The ORNL Deactivation and Demolition (D&D) team has safely completed the current phase of characterization scope in Buildings 3042 and 3038. Characterization is necessary to determine the contaminants in the waste stream to ensure proper disposal and compliance with the waste disposal facility acceptance criteria. As obstacles were removed from the facilities and sample locations…
UCOR Nuclear Operations crews are working inside of a large zeolite column for maintenance and repairs at ORNL’s 3608 Wastewater Treatment facility. These tanks filter out contaminants in the groundwater in the facility’s treatment process. This marks the first time that crews have operated welding equipment inside of a vessel of this kind. To learn…
UCOR’s Personal Property Management team has achieved a significant milestone, successfully transferring vital remotely operated demolition equipment from another DOE cleanup site. This strategic acquisition, carried out through the newly implemented Management of Portable Equipment Program, has resulted in an impressive cost savings of over $1.7 million by avoiding the purchase of new equipment. The…
UCOR President and CEO Ken Rueter reflects on a successful 2025 and wishes the workforce a happy holiday season. Watch the video here.
This week, UCOR’s Zone 2 Electrical Ductbank project team completed dewatering the last set of vaults on the K-25 footprint at Heritage Center. The ductbank vaults contained cables that once supplied power to K-25 and nearby facilities. Crews initiated dewatering the final 38 vaults on the west side of the K-25 slab in early September and have…
