DOE provides another tract for Oak Ridge area reindustrialization

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has transferred 32 more acres of remediated land to local authorities from DOE’s Oak Ridge Site.

The 32-acre land transfer to the Industrial Development Board of Oak Ridge from the Oak Ridge’s former Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex was announced Tuesday by the Environmental Management office.

It brings the total amount of land DOE has transferred to the local for economic reuse to 1,832 acres, Environmental Management said in a news release. The department and contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge finished major field work last year at what it now calls the East Tennessee Technology Park.

The land was used by the government from the 1940s through the 1980s to enrich union for nuclear weapons.