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Community leaders and area economic development officials joined OREM and the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee on Dec. 8 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of an innovative program designed to attract new industries and jobs to a former uranium enrichment complex.

OREM’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center recorded an outstanding year by exceeding all of its goals as workers continued to process and prepare Oak Ridge’s inventory of transuranic waste for offsite disposal.

After a decade of demolition, Oak Ridge became the world’s first to remove all of its uranium enrichment processing buildings. Despite this monumental achievement, the celebration lasted only moments before workers started taking down another structure to bring them closer to the next big goal...

On Aug 30, longtime EM employees stood attentively near the demolition site watching the final portion of Building K-27 crash to the ground. Their faces showed the recognition of this historically significant moment. Each played a role in the effort to...

Nine new faces will join the proceedings when an Oak Ridge citizen’s advisory board convenes this fall to provide input to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its cleanup mission across the Oak Ridge Reservation.