The Highway 95 bridge over the Clinch River (near Woodlawn Road) will be reduced to one lane starting Monday. Motorists will be directed through the work zone with a temporary traffic signal. This traffic pattern will be in place until late August 2026. Motorists are advised to expect delays and use extreme caution in this area as…
UCOR’s Local Safety Improvement Teams (LSITs) leaders kicked off the February LSIT Forum with a tour of the K-25 History Center and William J. Wilcox Jr. K-25 Interpretive Center at the ETTP Heritage Center, hosted by the WILE-E LSIT. Chairs and co-chairs from across UCOR came together for the visit as part of the LSIT’s new rotating monthly forum meeting series.…
Senior leadership recently presented the TeamsCount Award to Jeff Brown, Jana Curtis, and Dennis Killingsworth. This team of IT professionals earned the award for its essential work on the Performance Integrated Pipeline (PIP). The PIP project was crucial for improving POMC efforts. The team built a platform that optimizes workflows. This new platform ensures strong…
Topic: Goal Setting Guest Speaker: Susanne Dupes Tuesday, February 17 11 a.m. to noon 701 Scarboro, Meet+Train Snack will be provided.
Supervisor Success: Mastering People Skills & Cultivating High-Performing Teams is a monthly series from UCOR’s Human Resources Manager Mary Alice Douglass designed to support front line supervisors. Recognizing and rewarding your team members is a really powerful way to show appreciation, reinforce good work, and keep everyone motivated and engaged.It’s not just about big annual…
An unexpected leak developed in a potable water line at the ORNL Process Waste Treatment Complex (PWTC) Building 3608 late on Sunday, and by the end of the day on Monday UCOR’s ORNL Nuclear Operations team had isolated the leak and restored potable water to critical components. Potable water at Building 3608 is vital as…
Starting off 2026 strong, UCOR has generated several news stories. If you are interested in seeing who is paying attention to our work, read some of the stories by following the links below. Largest demolition ever at Oak Ridge’s Y-12 plant is complete: Oak Ridger, Nuclear Engineering International, WVLT, Knoxville Daily Sun, AOL, Nuclear Newswire…
James Love is a journeyman laborer at Y-12 and has been working with UCOR for two years. He is part of the CSLM crew at BETA-1. James and his fiancée, who works at ORNL, enjoy raising their two kids, ages 13 and 17, and love taking advantage of the beautiful East Tennessee outdoors. To learn…
The annual Top Workplaces survey starts on Monday, February 9. The survey email will come from survey@energage.com. This is a real survey, not a trick. Our cybersecurity team will not send fake emails from this address during the survey period. The email will have the subject line “Energage Survey.” Please take this survey. We want…
We’ll experience some afternoon rain today and into tomorrow, tapering off in the morning, with a slight chance of a wintry mix early tomorrow in higher elevations. After a couple more days in the upper 30s, we will begin warming up Friday, with a high pushing 50. Temperatures through the weekend will be in the…
