DOE to Issue Draft RFP for West Valley Assessments

The Department of Energy plans to issue a draft request for proposal in the next week for a probabilistic performance assessment at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York, according to a notice posted yesterday. The assessment would support the DOE and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake analyses related to the “Phase 2 decommissioning decision making alternative” for West Valley, according to the notice. One-on-one sessions are tentatively scheduled for the week of March 9. The final RFP is expected within a month, with procurement documents to be posted here.

 

The scope would include the following four elements, according to the notice: “(1) perform sensitivity analyses to provide near-term direction to site data collection activities, (2) transition existing components of a deterministic performance assessment (PA) to a probabilistic modeling platform to identify changes necessary in the model structure, input parameter distribution, the need for additional data, or the need for different modeling approaches, (3) prepare a long term probabilistic PA to support decision making and meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and (4) prepare chapters and appendices for the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) as required by the SEIS Contractor.”