High-Level & Tank Waste

As DOE Moves to Defense-Only Repository, West Valley Canisters Could be Left Behind

By Photo of Mike

Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
4/3/2015
While the Department of Energy announced last week that it plans to work to establish a defense-only high-level waste repository, hundreds of canisters of vitrified waste at the West Valley Demonstration Project may be left…

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