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.
February 28, 2018 – “The Western New York Environmental Alliance will hold a public information presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., to prepare for scoping hearings in mid-March on the fate of the West Valley Demonstration Project site. ” Link to Article
February 28, 2018 – “A coalition of environmental groups is hosting a program Thursday on the West Valley Demonstration Project and the next step in the decades-long cleanup of the nation’s first commercial nuclear reprocessing plant.” Link to Article
February 23, 2018 – “A reorganizational meeting for the Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County group not only elected a new president and officers Thursday, but began identifying environmental concerns in the region.
…. Another issue on Concerned Citizens’ agenda is the ongoing West Valley Demonstration Project, a nuclear waste remediation site in West Valley.” Link to Article
February 22, 2018 – “…. New York State Energy Research and Development Agency West Valley Program Director Paul Bembia reported NYSERDA recently completed its evaluation needed from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed solar farm at the West Valley nuclear site.” Link to Article
February 16, 2018 – A highly specialized piece of welding equipment from the Department of Energy’s cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project was shipped thousands of miles to the government’s Hanford site in Washington state, to assist in proposed packaging and moving highly-radioactive cesium and strontium capsules to dry storage. Sharing the equipment valued at approximately $2.4 million helps the sites achieve savings. Link to Article
