Open AccessWest Valley Demonstration Project site environmental report for calendar year 1996
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/569063
Subject(s) - waste management , hanford site , radioactive waste , plutonium , spent nuclear fuel , environmental science , vitrification , high level waste , human decontamination , waste disposal , savannah river site , hazardous waste , purex , engineering , extraction (chemistry) , nuclear chemistry , solvent extraction , medicine , andrology , chemistry , chromatography
The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), the site of a US Department of Energy environmental cleanup activity operated by West Valley Nuclear Services Co., Inc., (WVNS), is in the process of solidifying liquid high-level radioactive waste remaining at the site after commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing was discontinued. The Project is located in Western New York State, about 30 miles south of Buffalo, within the New York State-owned Western New York Nuclear Service Center (WNYNSC). This report represents a single, comprehensive source of off-site and on-site environmental monitoring data collected during 1996 by environmental monitoring personnel. The environmental monitoring program and results are discussed in the body of this report. The monitoring data are presented in the appendices. Appendix A is a summary of the site environmental monitoring schedule. Appendix B lists the environmental permits and regulations pertaining to the WVDP. Appendices C through F contain summaries of data obtained during 1996 and are intended for those interested in more detail than is provided in the main body of the report