Workers have finished cleaning up after demolishing the Low Intensity Test Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The work was done by cleanup contractor UCOR for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management.

Workers finished the tearing down the Low Intensity Test Reactor and disposing rubble and debris last fall, achieving a federal environmental management priority that year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management.

“However, the reactor vessel remained on the building’s footprint until it could be shipped for final disposition offsite,” DOE said in its “EM Update” newsletter.

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