[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, CLOSURE: K-25 Demolition, Oak Ridge, TN

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

K-25 demolition begins

By John Huotari
The Oak Ridger (TN)
December 16, 2008

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -
It was once the world's largest building under one roof and played a 
historic part in World War II and the Cold War.

Now, in a few years, most or all of the building will be gone.

On Tuesday afternoon, work crews began demolishing the crumbling K-25 
Building in west Oak Ridge, ripping and smashing into its west wing and 
removing steel and debris with yellow and black excavators outfitted 
with rotating shears.

Many older facilities at the site, like K-25, must come down because 
they "are not fit for reuse and pose potential long-term environmental 
and safety problems," according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

K-25, for example, has been "idle" for 23 years with little or no 
maintenance, and has caved-in roofs, unsafe floors and cracked columns, 
said executives from Bechtel Jacobs Co., DOE's prime cleanup contractor 
in Oak Ridge.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.oakridger.com/localnews/x1009172630/K-25-demolition-begins

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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