Dr. Joshua Vajda is an award-winning project engineer with the Site Integration and Cleanup Group working at ORNL. Vajda received the American Nuclear Society President’s Award for his work on a special task force on credentialing and certifications. Outside of work, Josh is a dedicated runner who completes in half marathons and is preparing to…
UCOR Radiological Protection (RP) Continuing Training Program developed a new and exciting training method for 160 radiological technicians, lead techs, and supervisors. The program created an interactive escape room combining multiple elements from previous training. Lead RP Training Instructor Gina Allison and RP group member Tim Hughes developed this escape room with a series of…
From Alpha-2 Building demolition to construction of the Mercury Treatment Facility at Y-12, a lot is happening in Oak Ridge. Have a look at all the progress we made across the Oak Ridge Reservation in December..
As UCOR’s Emergency Services Manager, Melissa leads a team of emergency management specialists to ensure UCOR is ready should an emergency situation arise. Her husband works as a division chief at Rural Metro Fire Department, so both of them live in protection mode. To see more of Melissa’s story, watch the video.
Crews deactivating ORNL’s former Acid Neutralization Plant, Building 3518, are busy with electrical isolations as they draw closer to completing cold and dark for the entire Process Waste Treatment Plant. Building 3518 was constructed in 1956 and processed ORNL wastewater until Building 3544 came online. Characterization and deactivation will begin in late FY 2025. Removing…
David Barton is a member of the UCOR Executive Communications team. He previously served in the Air Force and is still with the Air National Guard. David and his wife, Meagan, who also served in the Air Force, have four children. Watch the video to find out more.
At the ORNL Oak Ridge Research Reactor (Building 3042), crews have completed the reactor pool cleanup and are busy demobilizing from that activity. They have resumed removing and packaging 22,000 pounds of lead bricks from the second and third floors. The lead bricks acted as a shield around the reactor pool to provide contamination protection…
Landon Graham has been with UCOR for nearly a year. He went from laborer to concrete foremen to general foreman in just four months at the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility construction project. He has two stepdaughters and also has a new child on the way. Watch this video to see more of his sLandon…
Significant demolition progress has been made at the main Alpha-2 building at Y-12 over the last several weeks. Crews have sheared and demolished over 17,000 square feet of the facility. They have also removed the steel beams above the large electrical transformer that previously fed the building. This second phase of demo follows the successful…
At ORNL Building 3038 (Isotope Development Lab), the project team developed a new way to deploy its RADCOM team. Building 3038 is separated by an internal wall that required two separate Boundary Control Stations and four RADCON technicians to support the work there. The team built an external corridor connecting the two sides of the…
