Workforce spotlight – Dakota Styles
Dakota Styles is a team lead groundwater field technician and a UCOR LSIT chair. Born in St. Louis, she and her boyfriend have two cats and a dog. To learn more about Dakota, watch the video.
July skill focus: empowerment and self-empowerment
This month in Newsline and on UCOR Hub, we are focusing on empowerment and self-empowerment. You’ll see supportive Newsline articles from Human Resources (July 9), Total Career Management Services (July 16), and Public Affairs (July 21). On July 20, we’ll spotlight some videos on empowerment that you can access through UCOR University. This month, you…
Unmasking at Work: The Hidden Energy Cost of “Fitting In”
[Human brains process information, learn, and work in a vast array of unique ways. Approximately one in five people have a neurodivergent brain—meaning they exhibit variations such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, and dyslexia. We are sharing this five-part series to help our team understand, support, and appreciate these different thinking styles. We will share…
Federal Office Building to experience fiber optic outage this weekend
From July 10 to July 13, a fiber optic outage is planned at the DOE Federal Office Building in Oak Ridge that will affect communications, both telecom and network. The outage is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. this Friday and conclude at 6 a.m. on Monday. The outage will affect all fiber optic circuits…
UCOR receives certification to perform pressure boundary repairs
The National Board Inspection Code and Hartford Steam Boiler recently evaluated UCOR’s processes, procedures, quality manual, records, and more. Their thorough review resulted in a unanimous recommendation for UCOR to receive an R stamp certification to repair pressure vessels. This stamp of approval allows the team to perform alterations and repairs on American Society of…
All hands meeting planned for July 22
An all hands meeting will be held Wednesday, July 22, from 3 to 4 p.m. Unlike past all hands meetings, employees will not be traveling to a central location. This meeting will be held over Teams and broadcast in various conference rooms and meeting locations (a complete list will be released later). The meeting will…
A step forward in protection—UCOR transitioning to Type-2 hard hats
At UCOR, we handle safety proactively, not reactively. We aren’t complacent in how we operate—we continuously improve so we can operate above expectations every time on every project. That’s why we’re phasing out of our current Type 1 hard hats and transitioning to Type 2 safety helmets across the Oak Ridge Reservation. While traditional Type…
Milder temperatures and chances of thunderstorms for rest of week
High temperatures for the rest of this week will hover around the upper 80s, giving us some relief from the mid- to upper 90 temperatures we were experiencing last week. Isolated thunderstorms are possible this week, with a 30 percent chance each day. Precipitation chances increase a bit for the weekend, but the upper 80…
UCOR completes shipment of legacy containers from Alpha-4
UCOR has officially wrapped up a four-year risk reduction effort after removing 447 legacy containers from Y-12’s Alpha-4 building, bringing full-scale deactivation one step closer. The 447 containers had been stored at the former uranium enrichment and lithium separation facility since the 1990s, originating from multiple facilities across the Y-12 National Security Complex. They contained…
