IMPACT Services cleanup coming to end with one million pounds shipped
Considered a success story, the one-year, $1.2 million state project to ship out more than one million pounds of low-level radioactive waste from the west Oak Ridge site of a company that declared...
View ArticleIMPACT Services cleanup scheduled to end Friday
It’s considered a success story—a one-year, $1.2 million state project to ship out more than one million pounds of low-level radioactive waste from a company that has declared bankruptcy—and it’s...
View ArticleEDi buys former IMPACT Services site from CROET
An environmental services company that helped clean up the former IMPACT Services site at Heritage Center has purchased the seven-acre property from the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee....
View ArticleDOE responds to SSAB’s waste disposal recommendation
Submitted The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management has responded to a recommendation made earlier this year by the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board. In May,...
View ArticleFour workers evaluated, released after electrical fire at Toxco
Four workers were evaluated for minor respiratory issues and released after a small, intense electrical fire was reported at a company that repackages low-level radioactive waste in central Oak Ridge...
View ArticleNevada, feds agree to discuss landfill concerns, including ORNL radioactive...
A new group of state and federal workers that was announced Tuesday could discuss contentious waste-related issues that include concerns over shipping low-level radioactive waste from a World War...
View ArticleNew DOE landfill could cost $1 billion, including construction, operations
But it could also save $1 billion through on-site disposal, officials say A new landfill that would hold waste from cleanup work at federal sites in Oak Ridge could cost $1 billion, a project manager...
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