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State approves demolition of Biology Complex buildings at Y-12

Posted at 2:50 pm January 5, 2019
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Tennessee officials have approved the demolition of two large buildings—buildings 9207 and 9210—at the Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Y-12 announced in December 2018. (Photo courtesy Y-12)

Tennessee officials have approved the demolition of two large buildings—buildings 9207 and 9210—at the Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Y-12 announced in December 2018. (Photo courtesy Y-12)

 

Tennessee officials have approved the demolition of two large buildings at the Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

The Biology Complex once housed more people with doctorates than anywhere in the world, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. DOE has said the men and women who worked there radically enhanced the world’s knowledge in biology, including the discovery of the Y chromosome.

Y-12 announced in December that the Tennessee Historical Commission had approved the demolition of the two buildings: Buildings 9207 and 9210. The buildings date back to the Manhattan Project, a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic weapons during World War II. Oak Ridge was part of that project.

The demolition work at the Biology Complex is being overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Government, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, Slider, State, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: atomic weapons, biology, Biology Complex, Buildings 9207 and 9210, demolition, DOE, Jay Mullis, lithium production facility, Manhattan Project, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, URS-CH2M, World War II, Y chromosome, Y-12 National Security Complex

Y-12‘s Biology Complex would be top priority if excess cleanup funding available

Posted at 1:41 pm July 23, 2017
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Y-12 Biology Complex aerial

An aerial view of the Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Plans call for eventually demolishing the complex. (Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Energy)

 

If excess funding is available, the federal cleanup program in Oak Ridge has a top priority: the Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex.

The budget request submitted to Congress by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, May 23, included $225 million for high-risk excess contaminated facilities at Y-12 and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

It’s not clear how much of that money might be used in Oak Ridge, if the president’s budget request were approved. Officials said the allocations would be determined by U.S. Department of Energy headquarters.

But the Oak Ridge cleanup program, known as environmental management, has taken steps to ensure that some projects here, such as the planned demolition of Y-12’s Biology Complex, are “in a good position” if money becomes available.

On Friday, Jay Mullis, acting manager for the DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, or EM, said the Biology Complex would be a primary priority if Y-12 gets some portion of the $225 million proposed by the Trump administration.

“Provided there is excess funding, that would be the building we would go after,” the Oak Ridge EM program said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Front Page News, Government, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge Office, Science, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, Biology Complex, Chuck Fleischmann, Congress, DOE, DOE Office of Science, Donald Trump, EM, environmental management, Excess Contaminated Facilities Initiative, House Appropriations Committee, House Energy and Water Subcommittee, Jay Mullis, Lamar Alexander, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Oak Ridge cleanup, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, Trump administration, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, URS-CH2M, Y-12 National Security Complex

Safety forum on Wednesday to focus on worker accident

Posted at 2:06 am December 3, 2014
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Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership

Forum to feature ORNL Excess Property Sales event and how complacency had near-fatal impact

The Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership is having a community safety forum from 8 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, December 3, at the American Museum of Science and Energy. The safety forum, free of charge and open to the public, will explore an accident in which a worker was seriously injured that occurred earlier in 2014 during a routine transfer of excess equipment from UT-Battelle to the public.

Jimmy Stone, UT-Battelle’s Facilities and Operations Director, will make a presentation about the accident, focusing specifically on what could have been done to have prevented it from occurring, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: American Museum of Science and Energy, community safety forum, Fran Williams, Jenny Freeman, Jimmy Stone, Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership, Oak Ridge Reservation, ORBSP, ORNL Excess Property Sales, safety forum, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, URS-CH2M, UT-Battelle

ORNL, DOE, Roane State, Borchers to take part in STEM Night at Woodland

Posted at 10:10 am January 22, 2014
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Bruce Borchers

Bruce Borchers

Representatives from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Roane State Community College—as well as Superintendent Bruce Borchers—will take part in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Night for students at Woodland Elementary School on Thursday.

The STEM Night for students is being hosted by the Woodland Parent Teacher Organization, a press release said. It will be in the school’s gymnasium. Borchers will kick off the event with opening comments at 5:15 p.m. Thursday.

A press release said Borchers is pursuing avenues to make Oak Ridge “the” premier STEM school district in the country. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Bruce Borchers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Schools, Office of Environmental Management, Roane State, science technology engineering and math, STEM Night, Tamke-Allan Observatory, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Department of Energy, UCOR, URS-CH2M, Woodland Elementary School

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