Below are articles and other news published since the last West Valley Citizen Task Force Meeting. They relate to the West Valley Demonstration Project, nuclear waste cleanup or are otherwise relevant or of potential interest to stakeholders interested in the Project. After each Citizen Task Force Meeting, these articles are compiled into a single document and may be found with the meeting materials for that month.
April 5, 2018 – “U.S. Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) is keeping tabs on the continued federal cleanup in his home state at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) West Valley Demonstration Project, a nuclear remediation waste site about 40 miles south of Buffalo….” Link to article
March 29, 2018 – “Hot cell coolers, weighing 7,188 pounds each, were successfully removed from the Vitrification Facility through extensive planning, engineering controls, modeling and historical best practices.” Link to article.
March 23, 2018 – “New York state’s two U.S. senators say that more than $75 million was included in the federal budget bill for cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project. “Link to article.
March 22, 2018 – “President Trump didn’t get much of what he wanted in the $1.3 trillion spending bill the House passed Thursday, but Western New York members of Congress got plenty of what they wanted….
West Valley: The West Valley Demonstration Project will get $75 million to continue its clean-up work, $8.6 million more than it had in fiscal 2017. New York’s two U.S. senators fought for the increase. “These federal funds will help ensure that the site will be cleaned up as quickly and safely as possible, so that Western New Yorkers can live and work in the area without having to worry about this decades-old nuclear waste,” said Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a New York Democrat. ” Link to article.
March 22, 2018 – “As work continues and decisions need to be made on the future of the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, representatives from the United States Department of Energy and the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency held a meeting on March 19 in West Valley to get input on the scoping process.” Link to article.
