OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — For K-25 employees, coming out to the K-25 History Center is bittersweet.
“I can remember having to come in and go through, this used to be Portal 4, and run our badge through the badge readers and head on into work,” Scott Burgess, a former K-25 employee, said.
For decades, the plant employed thousands of people and innovated the nuclear landscape. The 44-acre building was torn down in 2013, and all that remains now is a massive concrete footprint of where the plant once stood…