The UCOR Heritage Center Closure team has achieved an outstanding safety milestone, completing 1,000 days without a recordable injury. This significant safety record underscores the team’s commitment to operational excellence and adherence to safe practices across complex tasks, from demolition and soil remediation to managing industrial and chemical hazards, all of which are crucial for the ongoing transformation and reindustrialization of ETTP.
“I am incredibly proud of our crews. Our workers show up every day ready to work and they do not overlook even the smallest of hazards,” said UCOR’s Heritage Center Closure Project Manager Amanda Human. “Our craft and project support are the best of the best. They exemplify UCOR’s safety culture and are a textbook example of being your brother’s keeper. I am grateful for the safe work they have completed over the last 1,000 days, and I look forward to supporting them for 1,000 more.”
Dedication.
The team’s dedication to safety is evident in their recent critical work. They successfully
- completed stabilization actions at the Zone 2 Powerhouse Duct Banks that historically supplied power to the K-25 Building
- dispositioned 100 pieces of excess heavy equipment for local and offsite disposal
- removed multiple above-grade structure across the site including 3.37 miles of fencing
- restored the 770 embayment by grading and revegetating the area to improve the flow into the Clinch River
- completed replacement of 310 linear feet of stormwater piping at outfall 780
Innovative methods were employed while maintaining safety milestones, such as cure-in-place pipe installation to repair deteriorating storm water pipes, elimination of outfalls and removal from the NPDES permit and successfully completing a five-year dye test, confirming the integrity of the 3.3-mile discharge pipeline conveying treated effluent to the Clinch River.
The team’s efforts on the footprint not only enhance safety and protect the environment but also pave the way for future development. UCOR’s cleanup work has enabled the transfer of over 2,546 acres for multi-industrial use, generating over $10 million in investments to date and a projected 2,500 new jobs. This includes projects like Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 Demonstration Plant, a commercial-scale Generation IV reactor now under construction at the ETTP Heritage Center.
