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The Future For A Cleaned-Up Site At Oak Ridge

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Chattanooga Times Free Press

In Oak Ridge, Tennessee - the U.S. Department of Energy recently declared a 2,200 acre site to be cleaned up and ready for industrial reuse.

The project - which took more than two decades - is the largest cleanup of its kind completed in the department’s history. 

Dave Flessner is business editor of The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

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