Project Update: Biology Complex Demolition at Y-12

Crews recently began demolishing the last facility standing in the former Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Removal of the massive six-story, 255,000-square-foot Building 9207 creates a new chapter of transformation and modernization for Y-12. Its removal clears an 18-acre are that will be the future location for the new Lithium Processing Facility.
The latest cleanup phase in Oak Ridge, now underway, involves addressing hundreds of excess, contaminated, and deteriorating facilities scattered throughout Y-12 and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that present hazards and occupy land that can be used for future research and national security missions.
Removal of the Biology Complex is the most significant skyline change of this new era, and it is the first of many EM projects to clear away former Manhattan Project and Cold War buildings.