Oak Ridge, as a predominately Department of Energy-related community, is rife with acronyms. We hope this list will help you navigate the letters and what they stand for. Be sure to click on the acronym for a link with more information. (Hint: If the acronym is pronounced by not saying just the letters, look for the pronunciation below in parentheses.)
AMSE – American Museum of Science & Energy (am-see)
CNS – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
CSC – Office of Science Consolidated Service Center
CROET – Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee (crow-et)
DOD – Department of Defense
DOE – Department of Energy
EM – Environmental Management
EMDF – Environmental Management Disposal Facility
ETEC – East Tennessee Economic Council (ee-tech)
ERTF – Emergency Response Training Facility
ETTP – East Tennessee Technology Park
IACMI – Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (eye-ack-mi)
K-25 – the original name for Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, now East Tennessee Technology Park
MDF – Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MPNHP – Manhattan Project National Historical Park
NEI – Nuclear Energy Institute
NNSA – National Nuclear Security Administration
NPO – NNSA Production Office
NSF – National Science Foundation
ORAU – Oak Ridge Associated Universities (o-rauw)
OREM – Oak Ridge Environmental Management
ORETTC – Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center
ORISE – Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (o-rise)
ORNL – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR – Oak Ridge Reservation
OSBDU – DOE’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
OSTI – Office of Scientific and Technical Information (ost-tea)
SBIR – Small Business Innovation Research
SC – Office of Science
SNS – Spallation Neutron Source
STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
TCAT – Tennessee College of Applied Technology (tea-cat)
TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority
TWPC – Transuranic Waste Processing Center
UCOR – URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, now an Amentum-led partnership with Jacobs (you-core)
UPF – Uranium Processing Facility
UPO – Uranium Processing Facility Project Office
UT – University of Tennessee
UTK – University of Tennessee, Knoxville Campus
UTRF – University of Tennessee Research Foundation
X-10 – the original name for Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Y-12 – Y-12 National Security Complex