Kudos to the Environmental Services Team for their work at the White Wing Scrapyard. The team demonstrated commitment in the face of environmental challenges, including navigating remote, heavily wooded, and overgrown terrain at the White Wing Scrapyard and the hazards that accompany that type of landscape. The team’s direct involvement in, awareness of, and willingness…
We are continuing to expand the features of UCOR Hub. One recent addition is the ability to enter your birth date and/or hire date to your profile. These are totally voluntary. If this is something you’d like to add to your profile, go to “Edit Profile” page. Then enter Month/Day/Year in either field. When it…
Today is the final day to donate to UCOR and Strata-G’s annual Coats for the Cold clothing drive supporting Knox Area Rescue Ministries. Provide a layer of warmth this season to someone in need by donating new or used (in good condition) coats of any size. Please bring donations to 701, Room 271 or contact…
Fall weather is finally here. High temperatures this week will only be in the 60s, with overnight lows dipping into the mid to lower 40s. We will have mostly sunny weather with only a slight chance of precipitation this week. Clouds will move in over the weekend, with high temperatures slightly warmer—in the lower 70s.
UCOR has a proud history of outstanding achievements that demonstrate environmental management and stewardship excellence as we execute our DOE ORR EM cleanup mission. As a way to highlight and celebrate our FY 2025 UCOR project environmental stewardship accomplishments, please submit your UCOR Environmental Management and Stewardship nominations by Nov. 20. The nomination categories are…
Renee Salazar-Romero has been named UCOR’s Mission Assurance & Controls Director, effective Nov. 3. Renee is currently serving as Program Manager with Longenecker & Associates, managing the company’s portfolio of projects in support of Sandia National Laboratories. During her 25-plus years of experience, she has also supported national laboratories in Argonne and Los Alamos. At…
Every day, UCOR engineers are evaluating, investigating, designing, planning, and much more, to ensure our cleanup work can move forward safely and efficiently. The team of six engineers supporting the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility project have been recognized with a TeamsCount award. Kyle Bair, Derek Holstein, Tyler Hughes, Nathan Keel, Tipton Lucas, and Joseph…
As the federal government shutdown moves past the two-week mark, we are reminding UCOR personnel that they should continue reporting to work. We have enough funding to continue several more weeks. While this shutdown may cause distractions such as other organizations around us being impacted, please remember to stay focused to help ensure an accident-free…
Demolition is the theme of this month’s UCOR update video. It features Alpha-2 demolition, where crews have demolished more than 150,000 square feet of the Y-12 building. Other demolition projects featured include the completed Building 3003 teardown at ORNL and removal of a portion of the final hot cell at the former Radioisotope Development Laboratory.…
UCOR will conduct a quarterly Continuity of Operations (COOP) accountability exercise Thursday, Nov. 6, beginning at 11 a.m. The accountability exercise is designed to demonstrate UCOR’s ability to account for all UCOR and staff augmentation personnel. The exercise is initiated by notification to management. Each functional organization may conduct accountability using established points of contact…
