DOE Awards $15M Contract for Support Services at West Valley Site

The Department of Energy on Monday announced that it had awarded a $15 million contract to North Wind Solutions to provide technical and support services for the West Valley Demonstration Project site in New York. The five-year contract calls for the Knoxville, Tenn.-based contractor to provide a host of services, according to a DOE press release, including environmental characterization support, support of safeguards and security, support of project execution, and ancillary administrative support. DOE is overseeing cleanup of a one-time nuclear fuel reprocessing site roughly 40 miles south of Buffalo. The agency maintains operational responsibility for about 165 acres within the state-owned 3,345-acre Western New York Nuclear Service Center.