The U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management program is hosting a Thursday morning meeting to discuss preservation plans for the East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site.
This public meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the conference room of Building 2714-G, which is located across from the Federal Building in Oak Ridge. There will be an opportunity for the public to provide comments.
Congressmen Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., and Doc Hastings, R-Wash., talk to the media before a Friday tour of the three local U.S. Department of Energy sites.
During a brief press conference this morning, Congressmen Chuck Fleischmann and Doc Hastings said they are advocating for more money for cleanup work at U.S. Department of Energy sites and a Manhattan Project National Historical Park that could include Oak Ridge and Hanford.
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic weapons during World War II.
“There’s so much history that was involved in what we did,” said Hastings, a Washington Republican and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Federal officials have selected a new assistant manager for environmental management for the U.S. Department of Energy in Oak Ridge.
Mark Whitney, who has worked in nuclear nonproliferation for the National Nuclear Security Administration, will become an assistant manager at DOE’s Oak Ridge Office effective August 2012.
