More Controversy Over West Valley
The federal Department of Energy is making its recommendations on how to continue the cleanup of the former nuclear site in Cattaraugus County, but a citizen's group says it's not satisfied with those recommendations.
The West Valley Demonstration Project housed a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing operation in the 1960s, but was shut down in 1972, leaving behind contaminated buildings and buried waste.
The D-O-E is recommending that some of the buildings be torn down, but is also calling for phased shutdown of the site that would take 30 more years.
Advocates for removing all the waste released a study today saying that removing all the waste would be cheaper than leaving some of it buried and having to maintain it for thousands of years.
The West Valley Demonstration Project housed a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing operation in the 1960s, but was shut down in 1972, leaving behind contaminated buildings and buried waste.
The D-O-E is recommending that some of the buildings be torn down, but is also calling for phased shutdown of the site that would take 30 more years.
Advocates for removing all the waste released a study today saying that removing all the waste would be cheaper than leaving some of it buried and having to maintain it for thousands of years.
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