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Environmental Services

ORAU is a leading provider of decommissioning health physics and radiological dose and risk assessment of environmental cleanup. Our highly-skilled health physicists and radiation safety experts have performed environmental assessments for federal and state agencies for more than 40 years, greatly enhancing public trust and instilling confidence in the decommissioning of contaminated sites.

We are also nationally recognized for our radiation safety training and offer a full range of health physics capabilities that can help you protect your workers, the public, and the environment from potential radiation hazards.

Health physicist conducts an environmental assessment

Impact Areas

ATDD: 50 years of weather stations, atmospheric dispersion and a forecast of sunny skies

The Atmospheric Turbulence & Diffusion Division (ATDD) is one of the oldest research laboratories within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ATDD is a division within NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory (ARL). In supporting ARL, ATDD is part of ORAU’s scope of work.

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ORAU’s 50-year partnership with ATDD has thrived through innovation.

Calculated innovation: ORAU health physicist develops app to guide survey planners to best tools, techniques

An ORAU health physicist had an idea to standardize and simplify the complex steps and mathematics that go into preparing for a radiation survey because it would help countless health physicists who do the same kind of work.

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Calculated innovation: ORAU health physicist develops app to guide survey planners to best tools, techniques

Contact us

For more information about contracting with ORAU, contact Kathy Rollow at (865) 206-4264 or kathy.rollow@orau.org.