West Valley

Originally published November 2008

The Real Costs of Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste: A Full Cost Accounting of Cleanup Options for the West Valley Nuclear Waste; a new report conducted for the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Citizens’ Environmental Coalition and the Coalition on west Valley Nuclear Wastes by Synapse Energy Economics.

Appendix A: Erosion & Control of Erosion at the West Valley Site
Appendix B: Radioactive Exposure from the West Valley Site
Appendix C: Potential Uncontrolled Release of Radioactive Waste

Factsheets on West Valley:

• Nuclear Waste and West Valley
• The Real Costs of Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste: Summary of Report Findings
• History of West Valley
• Severe Erosion Problems at West Valley Site
• Drinking Water Costs & Public Health Impacts
• Valuing the Future: The Viability of Institutional Controls Over 1,000 Years
• List of Proposed Nuclear Power Reactors and Irradiated Fuel Reprocessing Facilities in the US
• Letter from clean energy groups to DOE and NYSERDA on Probabilistic Performance Assessment that is now part of the plan for West Valley, with recommendations to ensure promised transparency provisions are met. The PPA will be used to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to be carried out by 2020.