{"id":245910,"date":"2026-05-28T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:00:08","slug":"cleanup-crews-remove-81-million-pounds-of-debris-from-manhattan-project-era-building-in-oak-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245910\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup crews remove 81 million pounds of debris from Manhattan Project-era building in Oak Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Cleanup crews have reached a major milestone in clearing a Manhattan Project-era building site in Oak Ridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews have hauled away 81 million pounds of debris from the former Alpha-2 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex. It was the largest teardown in Oak Ridge history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Previous Coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2026\/03\/16\/largest-teardown-oak-ridge-history-complete-doe-clears-land-modern-weapons-facilities\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2026\/03\/16\/largest-teardown-oak-ridge-history-complete-doe-clears-land-modern-weapons-facilities\/\">Largest teardown in Oak Ridge history complete as DOE clears land for modern weapons facilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/page\/wvlt-news-and-weather-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wvlt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EAFJZDKWSJFMFGBA5C5FOEW7NM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The next step will be processing around 800,000 pounds of lead removed from the building. Specialized shipments are set to start in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In total, officials told WVLT News in March approximately 70 facilities in the area are slated for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVLT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Cleanup crews have reached a major milestone in clearing a Manhattan Project-era building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-245910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}