I have lived in the Oak Ridge area for 20 years and have had the opportunity to watch the transformation of the East Tennessee Technology Park (K-25). After retirement (2011) I did some short jobs out there one of which was the transload of Navy fuel casks for decommissioning for two weeks each year for 10 years. The previous 10 years I was frequently at ETTP as it was mostly intact and that is where there was a transload area (truck to rail for radwaste) still active in the main site not the private site on the edge of ETTP. ETTP is being reborn as a nuclear hub with nuclear fuel fabrication facility, a nuclear components facility to be built, and a nuclear reactor.
OK my little bit of retired Nuke worker nostalgia is over.
K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge is demolished, but workers keep history alivehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/history/k-25-uranium-enrichment-plant-in-oak-ridge-is-demolished-but-workers-keep-history-alive/ar-AA1DPmLF?ocid=TobArticle
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