Y-12 UPF Design-And-Management Team to Consolidate Locations

The design-and-management team for the Y-12 site’s Uranium Processing Facility’s is vacating a couple of its leased buildings and will consolidate activities this fall at two facilities in Oak Ridge’s Commerce Park. Kathryn King, a spokeswoman for Y-12 contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security, confirmed that the team is moving out of the 9,000-square-foot facility on Union Valley Road in Oak Ridge, where the design operations were previously headquartered. The UPF team is also moving out of the Cherhala office complex in Knox County.

According to King, UPF activities will be consolidated at two facilities at Commerce Park – an existing lease space at 1099 Commerce Park Drive and a second facility nearby. “We are in the process of creating a walkable campus in two facilities in Commerce Park for increased safety and greater cost efficiency,” King said in response to questions. “The Commerce Park facilities can house as many as 850-900 people.” Bechtel National is managing much of the UPF work under a subcontract with Consolidated Nuclear Security, a partnership that is itself headed by Bechtel. The Army Corps of Engineers also is managing some of the early site readiness and preparation projects at Y-12 for the Uranium Processing Facility.