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Bearing witness: Walk for disarmament and lantern ceremony
80th Anniversary events organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Rally and walk action for disarmament
Saturday, August 9 | 10:00 a.m.
Gather at Bissell Park in Oak Ridge.
Join the walk to the gates of Y-12 for a rally with music, street theater and calls for nuclear disarmament.
Lantern Ceremony along the Tennessee River
Saturday, August 9 | 8:00 p.m.
Sequoyah Hills Park in Knoxville
Close the week with a reflective lantern ceremony along the water — honoring the lives lost and our continued commitment to peace.
Visit the OREPA website for details and more events.
Bearing witness to Hiroshima
80th Anniversary events organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Moving personal accounts of time spent in Hiroshima
Friday, August 8 | 6:00–8:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church Knoxville
First, readings from hibakusha Hideko Tamura Snider’s book “One Sunny Day: Childhood Memories of Hiroshima.” Then, Utsumi Gyoshu, Rachel Stewart and author Emily Strasser will each give remarks about recent experiences in Hiroshima. Q&A will follow.
Visit the OREPA website for details and more events.
Bearing witness: The Vow from Hiroshima
80th Anniversary events organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Film Screening: The Vow from Hiroshima
Thursday, August 7 | 6:00–8:00 PM
Central Cinema (TBC)
Join us for a powerful documentary followed by a conversation with co-producer/writer, Mitchie and discussion led by Ed Sullivan.
Visit the OREPA website for details and more events.
Bearing witness: Peace Pilgrimage, Names and Remembrance ceremony
80th Anniversary events organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Peace pilgrimage from the Great Smoky Mountains
Peace Walk: Bearing Witness to Hiroshima, August 4–9, 2025
Names and remembrance ceremony
Wednesday, August 6 | 6:00–9:00 a.m.
Location: Across from the Y-12 Security Complex main entrance way in Oak Rige
Join us to honor the victims of Hiroshima with a morning of names and remembrance, bell ringing and a visual tribute of paper cranes; please be sure to bring a chair.
Photo Lecture & Artist Panel
Wednesday, August 6 | 6:30 p.m.
Addison’s Bookstore, 126 S. Gay Street, Knoxville
An evening with Yvonne Dalschen, Black Atticus and guest artists reflecting on the legacy of Hiroshima through art, storytelling and music.
Visit the OREPA website for details and more events.
Bearing witness: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the end of nuclear weapons
Join us for the first 80th Anniversary event organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
First Friday at the Birdhouse — August 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Birdhouse Neighborhood Center, 800 N 4th Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
This casual OREPA gathering for a special First Friday sneak peek of Yvonne Dalschen’s photo exhibit will include light refreshments and an opportunity to engage with powerful images exploring themes of peace and resistance. All are welcome!
Contractors finish scraping remnants of war industry at former K-25 site in Oak Ridge
Aerial view of the East Tennessee Technology Park in August 2024 following the completion of all demolition and soil remediation projects at the former uranium enrichment complex by DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR. Department of Energy
Final remediation could add spark to regional technology and alternative-energy industry
OAK RIDGE — Workers finished clearing more than a million tons of nuclear-contaminated soil from a long-toxic site in the Atomic City dating to the World War II and Cold War eras.
While the site was established to enriched uranium for the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima toward the end of WWII, its future may lie in solar power and peaceful use of nuclear technology. The cleanup also ties into broader questions and controversies about storage of wastes from other Oak Ridge sites.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) removed and disposed of more than 554,000 cubic yards of soil, equaling nearly 50,000 dump truck loads, according to OREM.
“Today is a significant and meaningful step toward completing our ultimate mission at the East Tennessee Technology Park,” said OREM Manager Jay Mullis. “Our progress has transformed the site from an unusable liability into an economic asset for the Oak Ridge community.”
Ed Blandford, Kairos Chief Technology Officer, chats with Oak Ridge Environmental Management’s Ben Williams after an event celebrating the cleanup of radioactive soils at Oak Ridge’s K-25 site. Ben Pounds/Hellbender Press