About 81 million pounds of rubble have been cleared away from the two-acre footprint of the former Alpha-2 building site at the Y-12 National Security Complex at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, the Department of Energy said Tuesday.
That amounts to about 3,500 truckloads of debris being hauled away from the former uranium enrichment building by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and its contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR).
DOE said in January it had finished tearing down the building..
The remediation brings DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) closer to being able to use the site for future national security mission work, Environmental Management said in a Tuesday press release.
The next project phase of the work starts in June and involves reducing the size of 800,000 pounds of lead extracted from the building, and packaging it for shipment according to DOE.