Session 125 - Panel: US DOE Oak Ridge: A Comprehensive, Investment Worthy Approach to Cleanup

Session Co-Chairs:   Jenny Freeman (USA)
Jay Mullis (USA)
Lead Organizer:   Jenny Freeman (USA)
Add'l Organizer(s):   Sue Cange (USA)
Betsy Child (USA)
Panel Reporter:   Betsy Child (USA)
 

This workshop explored the comprehensive approach to cleanup employed by the DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. This approach has resulted in the successful completion of a decade-long effort to remove all former uranium enrichment buildings from the Oak Ridge Reservation, the first time this has been successfully achieved anywhere in the world.

The Oak Ridge cleanup program has proven investment worthy. New funding has been provided to stabilize and cleanup many excess contaminated facilities located across the Reservation. Additionally, the program is focused on continued strong management of capital asset projects and innovative solutions to material and waste disposition.

The panels focused on OREM’s challenges related to life extension of critical aging infrastructure needed to ensure ongoing safe and compliant operations, managing the rising cost of S&M of deteriorating facilities, and mitigating groundwater contamination.

DOE’s approach to cleanup in Oak Ridge is reaping benefits for the future. 

Panel Report

 

Panelists with presentations:

Oak Ridge: Successful Cleanup of the Oak Ridge Reservation
Jay Mullis, US DOE (USA)

Oak Ridge's Plan to Address Excess Facilities
Alan Stokes, US DOE OREM (USA); Ken Harrawood, Consolidated Nuclear Security (USA); Ron Slottke, URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (USA)

Oak Ridge's Approach to Managing Capital Asset Projects
Brian Henry, US DOE OREM (USA); Daniel Macias, URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (USA)

Innovative Solutions to Material Disposition
Brian DeMonia, US DOE (USA); John Wrapp, URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (USA)

S&M and Life Extension: Making the Tough Decisions
William McMillan, US DOE (USA); Ron Slottke, URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (USA)

Oak Ridge's Comprehensive Groundwater Strategy
David Adler, US DOE OREM (USA); Samantha Pack, Restoration Services, Inc/UCOR (USA)