2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 22 Aug 2006 06:31:14 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Oak Ridge (TN) K-25 cleanup
 
K-25 cleanup plans change

New policies increase safety measures; Trice named project manager

By FRANK MUNGER
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
August 21, 2006

OAK RIDGE - Kelly Trice once managed the cleanup of "the most dangerous building in America," a plutonium-laden facility at the Rocky Flats warhead plant in Colorado.

Now he's tackling something bigger: the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge.

Trice will oversee the dismantling of the mile-long, U-shaped structure built during World War II to process uranium for atomic bombs. At the time of its construction, K-25 was the world's largest building under one roof. Sixty years later, it's just a big mess.

The nuclear behemoth was shut down in the 1960s and largely neglected since then. It is loaded with deposits of fissile U-235 and fraught with potential pitfalls.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4931778,00.html

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