June 1, 2021 – Officials with EM, cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), and the New YorkState Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently presented donations to three organizations that provide emergency services to the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and surrounding community.

The organizations are the West Valley Fire District #1, which received $70,000, and Bertrand Chaffee Hospital and Mercy Flight, which received $5,000 apiece. Mercy Flight provides air ambulance service. Link to article

May 30, 2021 – The timeline for the open‐air demolition of the main plant process building at the West Valley Demonstration Project has been put off until late this year.

Crews from CHBWV, the contractor hired to carry out the cleanup at the nation’s first commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility, have been hampered in their deactivation of the building by COVID‐19 protocols. The U.S. Department of Energy, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and CHBWV plan to hold public meetings next month or in early July to detail safety plans for the upcoming demolition. Link to article

May 29, 2021 – The timeline for the open‐air demolition of the main plant process building at the West Valley
Demonstration Project has been put off until late this year.

Crews from CHBWV, the contractor hired to carry out the cleanup at the nation’s first commercial nuclear fuel
reprocessing facility, have been hampered in their deactivation of the building by COVID‐19 protocols.

The U.S. Department of Energy, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and CHBWV plan to hold public meetings next month or in early July to detail safety plans for the upcoming demolition. Link to article

May 28, 2021 – To help stop invisible but long lasting, dangerous radioactivity from getting into our air, water, soil, food and environment join us for a monthly series to learn about the West Valley NY Nuclear Waste Site. One of the most radioactive buildings at that site, and at all the nuclear power and weapons sites, in the country is slated to be
demolished starting in 2021. The West Valley Action Network groups are calling for an enclosure during demolition and offsite real‐time, publicly‐reported radiation monitoring to see if radioactivity is getting out.

The first two programs in the series will give the history of what’s there, what was done, how dangerous it is from experts who have tracked the site for decades. Link to article

May 20, 2021 – Contractors are in the homestretch of clearing the West Valley Demonstration Project of buildings.

Fifty‐one of 55 structures have been taken down [https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao‐21‐115.pdf], and the most contaminated [http://www.chbwv.com/Facility‐Deactivation/MPPB‐Demolition.pdf] of them all — the Main Plant
Processing Building — is scheduled for demolition this fall.

How hot are its five stories of reinforced concrete? A trio of activists said [https://buffalonews.com/opinion/anothervoice‐
demolition‐at‐west‐valley‐nuclear‐site‐must‐be‐monitored/article_33ada9c6‐406d‐11eb‐8103‐
cf6083e0c0b1.html] it “could be one of the most radioactive buildings in the country.”

The demolition might be welcome news, but the manner
[http://www.chbwv.com/Public_Meetings/Quarterly_Public_Meeting/022421/DD‐Process.pdf] in which contractors plan to bring the building down is causing concern, even alarm, in some quarters. Link to article