November 19, 2020 – To help spread some holiday-season cheer, volunteers from the West Valley Demonstration Project and its subcontractors gathered Friday at Sander’s Parkview in Salamanca to once again distribute collected food to nine local pantries.

This year’s fundraising effort included food and monetary and in-kind donations from the employees themselves and was responsible for the distribution of what amounts to 120,000 pounds of food, according to volunteer coordinator Lettie Chilson, including 360 turkeys. Link to article

November 19, 2020 – To help spread some holiday-season cheer, volunteers from the West Valley Demonstration Project and its subcontractors gathered Friday at Sander’s Parkview in Salamanca to once again distribute collected food to nine local pantries.

This year’s fundraising effort included food and monetary and in-kind donations from the employees themselves and was responsible for the distribution of what amounts to 120,000 pounds of food, according to volunteer coordinator Lettie Chilson, including 360 turkeys. Link to article

November 12, 2020 – The Department of Energy and its cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley, LLC recently conducted underwater cleaning and inspection of the site’s fire water storage tank at the West Valley Demonstration Project. The 40‐foot tall tank has a capacity of more than 460,000 gallons of water as an emergency supply for fire suppression.

Trained divers also performed repair work, which is being done in accordance with National Fire Protection Association requirements. Repairs will increase the life expectancy and viability of the tank for several years, at which time the tank will no longer be needed and will be demolished. Link to article

November 10, 2020 – A little-known team of experts at the Denver Federal Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is preserving America’s nuclear weapons research, a commitment that involves capturing, organizing, and digitizing decades of information.

Hundreds of boxes sit at the Denver center, filled with hard copies of data, reports, laboratory notebooks, welding procedures, and technical illustrations. The boxes came from all over the U.S. nuclear complex, including Rocky Flats, Mound, Pinellas, and other Department of Energy Environmental Management (EM) field sites after their successful closures. Link to article

November 17, 2020 – Crews prepared a large demolition excavator for the installation of a longreach arm as they readied for the future teardown of the last remaining major facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project, an EM 2020 priority. Built in the 1960s, the Main Plant Process Building was used as a commercial reprocessing facility to recover reusable plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear reactor fuel. Link to Update