Cleanup Progress Report - 2024

Read the 2024 edition of the Cleanup Progress Report to learn about the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's ongoing and recently completed projects.

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

December 16, 2024
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Read the 2024 edition of the Cleanup Progress Report to learn about the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's ongoing and recently completed projects. 

Cleanup Progress Report - 2024 

A summary of the topics is included below.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Lower reactor vessel removed from Building 3042
  • Deactivation underway on Isotope Row facilities
  • Isotek exceeds annual U-233 processing goals
  • Low Intensity Test Reactor vessel shipped for disposal

Y-12 National Security Complex

  • Demolition begins on Alpha-2 complex
  • Progress continues on Mercury Treatment Facility  
  • Deactivation continues at former enrichment buildings

East Tennessee Technology Park

  • Vision 2024: soil remediation completed at ETTP
  • Records of Decision signed for ETTP groundwater 
  • K-25 viewing Platform on track to open in 2025

Waste Management

  • Early site preparation completed at EMDF
  • TWPC achieves significant inventory reduction 
  • Company to recycle BUP-500 generator