Excess equipment project completed at ETTP Heritage Center

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…

Characterization completed in ORNL Buildings 3042 and 3038

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…