ARLINGTON, VA. —The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project in upstate New York has started tearing down the Main Plant Process Building this week, executives said here Thursday during the National Cleanup Workshop.
John Rendall, president and general manager of Jacobs-led CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley, announced the start of the “controlled deconstruction” after years of preparation at the conference, hosted by Energy Communities Alliance.
Rendall and Craig Rieman, DOE’s deputy director for West Valley, said demolition would take about 30 months to complete.
The Main Plant Processing Building is one of the last remaining major facilities at West Valley. West Valley, owned by the state of New York and being cleaned up by DOE was once home to a Nuclear Fuel Services reprocessing plant near Ashford, N.Y. DOE provides 90% of the funding for remediation and New York state the other 10%.
The cleanup contractor has been working at West Valley since Aug. 29, 2011 and currently extends through that date in 2024. The present value of the business is $836 million, according to a DOE online chart.
