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  • Landfill adjacent to K-25 safely cleaned up ahead of schedule

    URS/CH2M Oak Ridge LLC recently completed a three-year landfill cleanup project on schedule, under budget and without a single work-related injury, not even a first-aid case.

    Workers cleaning up the 6.5-acre K-1070B burial ground adjacent to the K-25 demolition project worked 205,800 accident-free hours while excavating 100,200 cubic yards of soil and debris.

    “This is proof that the goal of zero accidents on a project can be achieved,” said UCOR President and Project Manager Leo Sain.

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  • Friends of ORNL to meet

    Gene Ice will discuss “X-ray and Neutron Optics for Spatially-Resolved Characterization of Materials” during the May 16 luncheon meeting of Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

    Ice is director of the Materials Science and Technology Division, an ORNL Corporate Fellow, a fellow of the American Physical Society and an ASM International Fellow.

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  • Job workshop, fair aiming to help veterans

    A two-day employment assistance workshop for Tennessee National Guard members, Reservists and veterans is planned this week in Chattanooga.

    Military spouses may also take advantage of the May 16-18 event, which is completely free to participants in the Army Reserve Center at 6503 Bonny Oaks Drive, Chattanooga.

    Seats are limited. Those interested in attending are asked to contact Joe Thomas at joseph.c.thomas2@us.army.mil or 615-313-0752.

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  • Kingston’s Bloom honored by alma mater

    The College of Engineering at Tennessee Technological University recently honored  Aleisa Cummins Bloom as the 2012 Technologist of Distinction.

    Bloom, of Kingston, is a graduate of Tennessee Tech. She was honored during this year’s Engineers Week at the Cooke-ville-based university.

    Bloom is a group leader for sustainability and technology deployment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division.

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  • Network of contacts a strength of Roane State’s AMTEC

    When the phone stopped ringing, Mark Boody knew hard times were coming.

    Boody had his own home-remodeling business. In good years, he would get 20 calls a month, give 10 estimates and land five projects.

    Then, the economic downturn hit, and the housing market weakened.

    The calls dropped to three or four a month. The projects slumped to one a month.

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  • ORNL safety concerns removed

    U.S. Department of Energy cleanup contractor Safety and Ecology Corp. recently removed four structures as part of the Building 3026 C/D Hot Cells Project.

    The structures, which once processed radioisotopes, have been a safety concern for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory since the building’s outer structure was removed in 2010.

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  • 2012 Roane County Chamber of Commerce Business Awards

    The Roane County Chamber of Commerce presented its prestigious annual business awards last month during its annual springtime banquet in Whitestone Country Inn.

    The awards were presented, along with recognition of Chamber board members, before a capacity crowd of community and business leaders from all across Roane County.

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  • Roane’s job figures still looking good

    Statistics released late last week indicate that Roane County’s employment situation continues to look better.

    The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reports the county’s March unemployment rate at 7.5 percent, a decrease of 0.3 percent.

    That means 25,620 workers in the county’s 27,700 labor force were employed last month.

    Those numbers are also better than the same period last year, when Roane County recorded a jobless rate at 7.9 percent.

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  • UCOR on luncheon program

    Tony Fountain of URS/CH2MHill Oak Ridge, LLC, will be the guest speaker during the next East Tennessee Chapter of the National Contract Management Association monthly membership luncheon.

    Fountain will discuss UCOR and the East Tennessee Technology Park (formerly K-25 Plant) during the luncheon, which begins at 11:30 a.m. May 2 in Double Tree Hotel, Oak Ridge.

    Lunch is $15 for members; those who are not members of the organization pay $20 each.

    RSVP by contacting Vicki Dyer at 865-483-9332 no later than 10 a.m. May 1.

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  • ACE helps area companies grow

    Roane State Community College’s new Advanced Composites Employment accelerator is more than a training program.

    The grant-funded program also teaches companies, including small businesses, how they can utilize breakthroughs in the composites industry to grow and create jobs.

    “It’s an economic development opportunity with a training component to it,” ACE director Mike Farmer said during the recent kickoff meeting for the program at Tech 20/20. “That’s the purpose of what we are doing.”

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