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The US Department of Energy (DOE) says the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its clean-up contractor, UCOR (United Cleanup Oak Ridge) have begun tearing down the Low Intensity Test Reactor (LITR) at Oak Ridge National...
Demolition work began in late March and is expected to be completed by th end of 2023. It's "highly deteriorated and contaminated."
The Low Intensity Test Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory became world-famous when a photographer first captured a blue glow caused by radiation in the pool above the reactor. That photo appeared on the cover of the October 1951 issue of Scientific American.
Environmental management workers recently completed the first demolition of a reactor in the central campus area of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
For the first time in Oak Ridge history, environmental management crews are demolishing a former reactor facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.