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.
Panelists with presentations: |
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Oak Ridge: Successful Cleanup of the Oak Ridge Reservation |
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Oak Ridge's Plan to Address Excess Facilities |
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Oak Ridge's Approach to Managing Capital Asset Projects |
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Innovative Solutions to Material Disposition |
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S&M and Life Extension: Making the Tough Decisions |
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Oak Ridge's Comprehensive Groundwater Strategy |
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