URS Corp said the U.S. government awarded its Washington unit a $67 million contract to deactivate and demolish a nuclear research facility.

Under the four-year, Department of Energy (DOE) contract, URS will deactivate, demolish and remove process facilities and nearby contaminated soil from the Separations Process Research Unit, a former nuclear research facility in Niskayuna, New York.

SPRU, located at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory about a half-hour's drive northwest of the New York State capital Albany, was operated from 1950 to 1953 as a pilot plant to research chemical processes to extract uranium and plutonium from irradiated uranium.