For Immediate Release
Contact: Fran Poda
fran.poda@ettp.doe.gov
(865) 241-6226
Oak Ridge, Tenn., November 28, 2011 – URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) has made its
2,000th shipment of K-25 demolition rubble since it assumed management of the East Tennessee
Technology Park cleanup contract on Aug. 1.
Materials shipped included processed steel, asbestos, concrete rubble, compressors and
converters. All shipments were completed safely and without incident. Materials were sent to
the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF), the Oak Ridge
Reservation’s mixed waste disposal facility.
UCOR’s Waste Management & Disposition organization executed a waste program strategy that
improves support to waste generators to ensure no waste is generated without a disposal plan,
and to ship waste from the point of generation to eliminate the need for double handling and
storage.
These efforts paid off from the beginning, with immediate records set in terms of number of
shipments per day, volume shipped, and others.
“We have made a concentrated effort to accelerate waste disposition,” says Leo Sain, UCOR
President and Project Manager. “The goal is to dispose of waste as it is generated, rather than
stage it and dispose of it later. Our employees have embraced our new strategies, and we’ve
made great strides toward that goal.”
UCOR is the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management contractor at the Oak Ridge
Reservation. The company is responsible for deactivation and demolition of the K-25 facility at
ETTP, as well as other specific scopes of work at ETTP, the Y-12 National Security Site, and the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
