The WEPAR project will also provide security upgrades to the new perimeter. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 2:46 PM EDT April 8, 2021
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. A major project is underway at the Y-12 National Security Complex to improve security.
Officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, broke ground on the West End Protected Area Reduction project (WEPAR) this week.
Its goal is to reduce the high-security protected area around the facility by 50 percent and to modernize security measures on the new perimeter.
“Y-12 performs specialized enriched uranium processing, manufacturing, and storage, said Dale Christenson, Y-12 Acquisition and Project Management Office director, whose office is overseeing the project. “Advances in technology and processes have facilitated the consolidation of high-security work into a smaller area, which will lower operating costs and maintain reliability of th