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…
Meet Clay Hartman, a project engineer for Waste Operations. Clay helps ensure that waste shipments keep rolling as UCOR works to clean up the Oak Ridge Reservation
Our Characterization Operations team is collecting surface soil samples as part of their early site characterization work at the 30-acre White Wing Scrap Yard. This parcel will be the site of the recently announced Orano USA multi-billion-dollar uranium enrichment facility. Pictured are workers using hand augers to collect samples from the top two feet of…
Congratulations to two of our safety & health professionals for being honored for the contributions to their field. Mel McKenzie received the President’s Award at the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Safety24 Conference and Expo. As a member of the Leadership Conference Planning Committee, Mel received the award “for transforming ASSP’s Leadership Conference into…
Workers have started demolishing the Alpha-2 Complex, starting with the Carpentry Shop. The Carpentry Shop is one of four structures making up the complex. The other three are Building 9201-2, the Fusion Energy Building (referred to as Alpha-2); Building 9401-1, the Old Steam Plant Building; and Building 9501-2, a 161 kV steel transformer. Crews have…
It’s nice to be first, or at least one of the first. That’s where the Transuranic Waste Processing Center (TWPC) is after the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) approved their new waste-treatment process for non-compliant cellulosic waste. TWPC is one of the first sites in the entire DOE complex to develop and implement a process…
Congrats to our team at the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) project and our Sustainability Program team. At last week’s Tennessee Sustainability Conference, their work was recognized by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the organization’s Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Excellence Award. Specifically, the award was for best overall efforts in environmental innovation…
It’s been a long, hot summer for the team at our Y-12 Alpha-2 project, working tropical and night shifts to get the job done. But it sure is paying off. They have reached a significant milestone, getting the west side of the massive building as well as the carpenter shop 9732-2 condemned. Congratulations, team!! They…
