Back in the relatively quiet nuclear years of the Obama administration, the Department of Energy brought Y-12 National Security Complex and a sister nuclear weapons site in Texas under the same ...

Y-12's Building 9206 downgraded from a nuclear to a radiologically contaminated site, setting the stage for demolition.

The Trump administration terminated the jobs of federal workers at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge before trying to undo layoffs at the agency in charge of the U.S. nuclear weapons ...

National Security Complex downgraded Building 9206 from a nuclear facility to radiologically contaminated, a milestone that ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new facility to help modernize the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile at Y-12 is nearing completion despite being over budget and behind schedule. Five of seven ...

Building 9206 was used for uranium recovery and processing. It was shut down with an inventory of uranium-bearing materials ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Three 1940s-era buildings on the Y-12 National Security Complex campus in Oak Ridge are up next for removal. All three will be worked on simultaneously, according to the ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Leaders gathered in Oak Ridge on Thursday for a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of a construction project to build a new, large Lithium Processing Facility at Y-12. The ...

Y-12 National Security Complex has reported no injuries occurred after an incident at the Oak Ridge atomic weapons plant that may have released hydrogen fluoride, a colorless chemical that becomes a ...

The Department of Energy awarded an estimated $2.8 billion contract to Nuclear Production One LLC to manage and operate the Oak Ridge facility and Pantex Plant, located in Amarillo, Texas. Many Y-12 ...

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