UPF Budget Goes Through the Roof

URANIUM PROCESSING FACILITY AT Y-12 NOW 3 YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE AND IS SLATED TO COST AN EXTRA $2 BILLION The Y-12 weapons plant in Oak Ridge is currently in the process of upgrading its old, deteriorating buildings that were built during the Manhattan Project era in the 1940s and replacing these buildings with the Uranium […]

Remembering Mary Dennis

January 15, 2023 at Church of the Savior

Ban Treaty Day in Oak Ridge

January 23 marks the second anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. OREPA will be combining our celebration of the Ban Treaty with our Sunday vigil this year. We will start in Oak Ridge at 3:30 with a banner-holding vigil at the high-traffic intersection of South Illinois Avenue (Rt. 62) and Lafayette Ave/Scarboro Road. […]

1,000 Cranes

Join OREPA, CISV, local middle schoolers and youth groups in an event for all ages—celebrating International Peace Day by folding 1,000 cranes at Union Avenue Books in downtown Knoxville on September 24.

Ten Years Ago: Transform Now Plowshares

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY – When Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli were arrested deep inside the maxium security area of the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the early morning hours of July 28, 2012, they made national and international news. The story the media told was of an audacious, […]