Environmental Assessments and Health Physics

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other federal agencies spend billions of dollars cleaning up radioactively contaminated sites each year and need assurances that release criteria have been met. The ultimate safety of these buildings and lands is of paramount concern for the public and future stakeholders of these properties.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is the nation’s leading provider of independent verification surveys of environmental cleanup, greatly enhancing public trust and instilling confidence in the decontamination and decommissioning of contaminated sites.

ORAU Provides Independent Surveillance of Environmental Cleanup Activities

Whether your project requires the cleanup of a site, a facility, or equipment contaminated with nuclear materials, your business needs to be able to rely on a respected, objective organization to ensure that remediation plans adequately assess radiological conditions.

ORAU has performed independent environmental assessments and verification for federal and state agencies for more than 25 years. We partner with cleanup agencies to provide objective, independent surveillance of decontamination and decommissioning efforts.

We are also nationally recognized for our radiation safety training and offer a full range of health physics capabilities that can help you protect your workers, the public, and the environment from potential radiation dangers.

Featured Videos

Using Standard Land Survey Technology to Generate 3-D Radiological Characterization Data (2:45)

ORAU has developed a method for using a robotic total station to capture the geospatial data necessary for mapping radiological contamination indoors.

DOE partners with ORISE to accelerate cleanup (1:23)

DOE Assistant Manager for Environmental Management John Eschenberg discusses how ORISE helped DOE accelerate their cleanup efforts on the Oak Ridge Reservation.

DOE praises ORISE characterization work at ORNL (1:07)

DOE Recovery Act Manager Lee McGetrick discusses how ORISE’s work characterizing waste at 34 ORNL facilities helped DOE save 6-12 months in their cleanup schedule.

Current Career Opportunities

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Ref. No.	Job Title	Location
12-006	Manager Survey Projects	Oak Ridge, TN
10-138	Health Physicist 1 - Survey Projects	Oak Ridge, TN

News

Sarah Roberts, vice president and director for Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ Independent Environmental Assessment and Verification program, is the 2011 recipient of the Elda E. Anderson Award—an honor bestowed by the Health Physics Society each year to one its members for excellence in research or development; discovery or invention; or for significant contributions to the health physics profession.

Featured Publication

The Value of Independence, an ORAU white paper on the independent verification component of DOE Order 458.1