K-633 Test Loop Facility demolition completed

摘要

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its cleanup contractor, URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), completed the demolition of the K-633 Test Loop Facility at Tennessee's Oak Ridge Reservation in June. According to the DOE, the project eliminates one of the most contaminated buildings remaining at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), site of the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Building K-633 is the fourth building that OREM's program has removed from ETTP's Poplar Creek area since last year. Prior to those teardowns, the area contained 11 large buildings and numerous structures built in the 1940s and 1950s to support the site's former nuclear program and operations. According to the DOE, the Poplar Creek area contains the most contaminated facilities left at the site, following the demolition of five massive gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment buildings (K-25, K-27, K-29, K-31, and K-33). Crews began taking down K-633 in early May, and they finished removing debris on June 14.