Dan Brouillette joined state & community leaders in Oak Ridge to celebrate the historic first-ever removal of a former uranium enrichment complex.
A decades-long effort to clean and transform the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant is complete.
The K-25 site, now called the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), was built in 1943 in a rural region of East Tennessee.
Almost 25 years ago, when the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant sat shuttered with dilapidated, contaminated buildings.
From a more efficient approach for disposing debris to a digital-based monitoring system that helps detect and prevent heat stress.
While DOE’s OREM celebrates a historic achievement at ETTP, more work is needed to address old, contaminated structures and modernize other portions.
Several generations of employees have worked at the former K-25 site, supporting efforts to produce enriched uranium, and to clean up the site.
Members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) expressed pride as DOE’s OREM transformed ETTP for new uses they helped chart.
The final unneeded structure at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) has been torn down.
Oak Ridge crews have removed unneeded buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park.