Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU)

Separations Process Research Unit | Niskayuna, New York

Contaminated Soil Remaval Begins In North Field

Work began on November 3 to remove radioactively-contaminated soil from the North Field Area at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU). Work began on November 3. The North Field project is entirely funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and is being performed by Accelerated Remediation Company (aRc). Click here to view the entire article...

Filling first North Field load

Recovery Act Funding Accelerates Building Demolition at New York SPRU Project

Significant progress is being made in the decontamination and demolition (D&D) of two contaminated buildings at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU). The two buildings, designated G2 and H2, are contaminated with radioactivity and have large quantities of hazardous materials such as asbestos. Click here to view the entire article...

Recovery Act Funds Stimulate SPRU’s Move Toward Closure

Cleanup at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) is planned to be completed by the end of 2011, accelerated in part due to Recovery Act funding, and the site will be returned to the DOE Office of Naval Reactors for future use. SPRU received $14.8 million to accelerate the remediation of radioactively-contaminated soil in the North Field area of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) in Niskayuna, NY. Recovery Act funding will also create at least 20 new jobs - 6 have already been hired - and will allow the North Field project to be completed in 2010, three years earlier than originally planned. The North Field is a 15-acre area that is contaminated with cesium-137, the result of storage of waste from historic SPRU operations. Click here to view the entire newsflash...

Additional Recovery Act funds ($37M) will accelerate decontamination and demolition (D&D) of two contaminated buildings (a process research and office building, known as G2, and a waste processing building, known as H2), six underground waste storage tanks, and a piping tunnel between G2 and H2. Work has already begun, saving over 50 jobs and creating 26 new jobs. More information about cleanup at the SPRU is available at: http://www.SPRU.doe.gov.

SPRU Buildings G2 and H2

Lower Level Parking Lot and Railroad Staging Area Soil Removal

On March 31, 2009 Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $6 billion in new funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate environmental cleanup work and create thousands of jobs across 12 states. Projects identified for funding will focus on accelerating cleanup of soil and groundwater, transportation and disposal of waste, and cleaning and demolishing former weapons complex facilities.

Please visit the following web sites for additional information on the Office of Environmental Management’s projects and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

http://www.energy.gov/ recovery/index.htm

http://www.energy.gov/ recovery/ environmental_management.htm

http://www.em.doe.gov/ emrecovery/EMRecovery.aspx