Crews on Isotope Row moved a mini excavator into Building 3118, Radioisotope Laboratory H. for the demolition of the 3031 Hot Cell. UCOR continues making great progress for @OREM toward deactivation and eventual demolition of the 12 buildings on Isotope Row, eliminating risks and freeing up valuable space on @ORNL’s Central Campus for the lab’s…
Kenneth Williams joined UCOR just a few months ago and is the company’s lead counselor in our new well-being clinic. Williams is a veteran who started his career with degrees in physics and mathematics and worked as a defense contractor. Thirty-three years ago, he made a career change to become a licensed counselor. With UCOR’s…
Crews in the Y-12 Beta-1 facility are conducting characterization and nondestructive assay surveys of potentially radiologically contaminated pipe in the basement to prepare for demolition. This work is taking place simultaneously with asbestos abatement of basement piping. Our workers continue to pump infiltrating water from the basement. Pumping out the water will allow workers to…
UCOR’s Sustainability Program and Heritage Center teams were able to certify a specific area of the site as a Monarch butterfly waystation through Monarch Watch, an education, conservation, and research organization. UCOR craft workers manage this nine-acre parcel of land in the Poplar Creek area of ETTP. It once housed some of the most contaminated…
Workers are doing a number of activities at the Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor (ORG) support facilities to get it ready for demolition next year. They are removing sludge from the Graphite Reactor Filter House canal. When completed, that effort is expected to generate almost 130 steel drums, holding 55 gallons each, of sludge waste. Workers…
Congratulations to Tommy Morgan (pictured left) and Josh Vajda (pictured right) who were honored at the 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida recently. Morgan, who works for the Chief Operating Officer group, was named to ANS’s inaugural 40 under 40 list. This competitive list recognizes 40 individuals who strengthen…
Workers are making great progress demolishing the Alpha-2 complex during the second phase of demolition. Starting on the southwest corner of the main building, crews have demolished more than 11,700 square feet of the facility. Main building demolition began after the successful demolition of the carpentry building—part of the Alpha-2 complex—earlier this year. Enough debris…
UCOR D&D crews are currently testing their new BROKK B110 remote demolition unit. Last week, they tested it at the ORNL Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor site and did a mockup of the 3026 hot cell. This remotely operated equipment allows the project to significantly increase workers’ distance from potential hazards. The BROKK unit is small enough…
Meet radiological professionals Paula Eich, Summer York, Nicole Wilson, and Amy Moore who support the UCOR team working deactivating the ORNL Oak Ridge Research Reactor Building. These four women make a strong team, which has extended beyond the boundaries of work into a friendship. They share personal and professional experiences to guide one another through…
Crews are in the process of removing over 20,500 linear feet, or about 3.8 miles, of fence around the ETTP Heritage Center site. The fence removal project facilitates the continued transfer of parcels for future land use for private and public use. It has proven beneficial to prospective owners, especially clean energy companies that need…
