Scott Anderson has been promoted to president and general manager of the cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state, CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley.
Anderson has been the No. 2 executive at the West Valley contractor for three years, serving as senior vice president and general manager. He succeeds Jeff Bradford, who recently became program manager at Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, a contractor led by CH2M parent Jacobs Engineering, which is in charge of deactivation and remediation efforts at DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky.
At West Valley, Anderson has helped oversee placement of 278 canisters of high-level waste onto an on-site storage pad ahead of schedule, demolition of 22 of 47 buildings, and deactivation of the West Valley Vitrification Facility. Anderson said in a July presentation the vit plant demolition should be completed this month.
The CH2M-led contractor has a 10-year, $542 million contract at West Valley that runs through March 2020.
Anderson has over 30 years of experience in management of radioactive and hazardous waste. He has held management jobs at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee and the Idaho Cleanup Project, CH2M said in a Sept. 4 press release. In Tennessee, Anderson was in charge of waste disposition for remediation prime URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), according to his LinkedIn profile.
The West Valley Demonstration Project covers roughly 200 acres of the 3,300-acre Western New York Nuclear Service Center. Between 1966 to 1972, Nuclear Fuel Services ran a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at the site. The DOE is responsible for decontamination and decommissioning of structures at the site.
