Workers in ORNL’s former Isotope Development Lab (Building 3038) are removing the water tanks that shielded hot cells as they prepare to remove the hot cells from the portion of the building known as the Alpha Handling Facility. Removing this equipment is necessary to support ongoing deactivation and prepping the facility for demolition.
The UCOR team’s commitment to safety has again earned national recognition. We received DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program “Star of Excellence” for our workers’ safety record while doing high-hazard work. PLUS, we got our fifth consecutive “Safety Innovation Award” from the Voluntary Protection Program Participants’ Association for our enhanced fall protection program. Earlier this year, UCOR…
Meet Casey Kennedy who is an administrative assistant for UCOR’s Navigate Program. Casey is passionate about our new behavioral and mental health program and how it can serve the UCOR family.
eThe team at ORNL Building 3042 Oak Ridge Research Reactor has completed a significant milestone cleaning up the reactor pool. For almost two years, crews have been working to segment and remove the reactor vessel and internal pool components, clarify and drain the pool water, and remove sediment from the bottom of the pool. There…
Workers with the Y‐12 Alpha‐2 Utility Reroutes Project have made significant progress with pipe replacement along Second Street reaching the Alpha‐2 building. The reroutes crews are working near where the Alpha‐2 team is prepping for building demo. Both teams are closely focused on their individual work areas to keep the Alpha‐2 demolition schedule on track.…
The landscape is starting to change at the Mercury Treatment Facility (MTF) project at Y-12. Until recently, much of the work has been taking place below ground level. However, crews have now installed the first of three sludge settling tanks. These tanks are essential to the project’s commitment to reduce mercury levels in the East…
Meet Mary Alice Douglass, UCOR’s Human Resources Manager. Hear Mary Alice talk about the importance of people as well as how she spends her time away from work.
Crews continue deactivating the hot cell structure that used to be part of the Radioisotope Development Laboratory at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They installed a sleeve through an opening to provide a protective, smooth pathway for the crew to move tools and waste in and out of the cell opening. The structure is scheduled…
UCOR has once again been recognized for its efforts to have a more environmentally friendly future. The NAFA Fleet Management Association, the vehicle fleet industry’s largest membership association, has presented UCOR a Green Fleet Award. The Green Fleet Awards recognize peak-performing fleet sustainability efforts and honor fleets who have enhanced practices to make a positive…
Crews at the ORNL Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor have been working for months to get the last waste loadout of asbestos, metal debris, and hazardous waste materials from the building’s experimental cells and utility tunnel—a total of 39,840 pounds—ready for shipping. Now workers can pour 8,300 cubic yards of concrete in the areas below the ground…
