OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — The U.S. Department of Energy has completed the demolition of a former Manhattan Project-era uranium enrichment building, Alpha-2, to clean up and create space for modernization at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Officials with the DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) shared progress on efforts to transform and modernize the complex.
“It enables modernization. It opens up space for NNSA to be able to build facilities that they will need for the weapons mission,” said OREM manager Erik Olds.
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The facility covered 2.5 acres at Y-12. OREM and its contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) are conducting projects at the national security complex to clear away old facilities to make way for this modernization…