Demolition nears end at former holder of world’s largest building record.
The skeletal structure of K-25’s North Tower came tumbling down with a boom Wednesday morning, marking another milestone in the decades-long, billion-dollar effort to stabilize, tear down and clean up one of the oversized nuclear legacies of the World War II Manhattan Project.
The government’s cleanup manager, URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), invited members of the news media and others to witness the occasion at the former uranium-processing site now known as the East Tennessee Technology Park.
At the time of its construction in the early 1940s, K-25’s mile-long, four-story structure in the shape of a “U” was considered the largest building in the world under one roof.
Read more here, or view the video below:
