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…
Overthinking is one of the most common struggles people have. The mind replays conversations, predicts worst-case scenarios, and demands certainty before we act. We often find ourselves endlessly replaying conversations in our mind thinking about what “I could have, would have, should have done or said.” Getting stuck inside our thoughts often leads to anxiety,…
MEDIC will be conducting a blood drive at UCOR work locations from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 24 and 25. The bloodmobile will be at 701 Scarboro on March 24, and at K-1036 on March 25.
OREM and UCOR hosted a public meeting Thursday featuring poster stations that allowed attendees to interact with subject matter experts. More than 70 people attended the event, held at the Oak Ridge Conference Center. With this being the first public information meeting in FY 2026, attendees asked questions about goals for this fiscal year. They…
A small but mighty ORNL Nuclear Operations crew responded to the cold and snow over the last two weekends. They conducted the following activities at Liquid and Gaseous Waste Operations facilities and Surveillance and Maintenance facilities across ORNL. Snow clearing: Removal of accumulated snow from access roads, parking lots, walkways, and operational routes to maintain…
