The No. 2 Department of Energy manager at the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York, Craig Rieman, has left to take another job within the agency, members of a local task force heard last Wednesday.
Bryan Bower, DOE’s manager of the West Valley cleanup, announced the move last Wednesday, June 28, during a meeting of the West Valley Citizen Task Force.
Riemen is effectively being replaced by two people, Bower said. Stephen Bousquet, project director for demolition of the Main Plant Process Building; and Jennifer Dundas, West Valley’s safety and site programs team leader, will become co-deputy directors, Bower said.
DOE announced last week that the final request for proposals for Phase 1B cleanup, which would include remaining tear-down of old structures as well as soil remediation, should be released by the end of December. Jacobs-led CH2M Hill-BWXT West Valley is the incumbent remediation contractor.
West Valley is the one-time home of a commercially-owned plant that did nuclear fuel reprocessing. While the state of New York owns the 200-acre site itself, DOE is responsible for remediation of the site and financing 90% of the cleanup costs.
