US Department of Energy shrinks complexity to power nuclear cleanup at Oak Ridge
When your mission is to safely clean up some of the most complex nuclear facilities in the world, information is not a support function—it is the mission.
At United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), we are responsible for environmental remediation across the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. That work includes deactivating and demolishing former nuclear facilities, managing transuranic and liquid waste, maintaining aging infrastructure, and preparing land for safe, future use.
Every decision we make depends on trusted information. And a lot of that information goes back decades.
A mission built on decades of records
Some of the documents we manage date back to the 1940s and 1950s, when Oak Ridge played a critical role in the Manhattan Project. Engineering drawings, safety basis documents, surveys, procedures, sampling reports—millions of records created across different eras, formats, and systems.
For years, our challenge wasn’t just storing information. It was...
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