Another giant building begins to fall in Tennessee.
Demolition work has begun on another giant building at a former uranium enrichment plant in West Oak Ridge. This time, it’s the 13 hectare (32-acre) K-33 Building on the western side of the former K-25 Site.
As of early January, about 65 percent of K-33’s siding had been removed and roughly eight percent of the two-story building had been demolished, U.S. Department of Energy spokesman Michael Koentop said. The project began last September with workers clearing an 24 metre (80-foot) perimeter around the 12,0,000 square metre (1.3 million-square-foot) building. “We’re on schedule,” Koentop said. “It’s a real success story for us.”
Demolition work is funded by federal economic stimulus funding – the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – and could be completed by 1 March 2012. Debris will be hauled to DOE’s Environmental Management Waste Management Facility on Bear Creek Road.
DOE announced in April 2010 that it had awarded a $51 million contract for the demolition work to LATA-Sharp Remediation Services LLC of Westerville, Ohio. The project employs 260 workers.
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