VIDEO: West Valley completes demolition of former nuclear reprocessing facility
19 June 2025
The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has completed demolition of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in New York state.
According to EM, the project was the largest and most complex demolition of a radioactively contaminated site it has ever undertaken.
The five-storey, 35,100 sq ft facility had been used from 1966 to 1972 as a commercial plant for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.
It processed around 640 metric tons of…
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