What is NYSERDA’s nuclear materials responsibility?
NYSERDA legally evolved from a predecessor agency, the New York Atomic and Space Development Authority, which built and maintained properties associated with those endeavors. Currently, NYSERDA manages, on behalf of the State, the Western New York Nuclear Service Center at West Valley, Cattaraugus County, where the U.S. DOE, through a contractor is cleaning up the high-level nuclear wastes under the West Valley Demonstration Project. Also on that site, NYSERDA maintains and monitors the State’s low level radioactive waste storage facility. NYSERDA publishes annually the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Status Report.
