Waste Management Symposia 2012
 
 

 

Special Session - WM2011

Session 071 - Featured Site: West Valley Demonstration Project - Accomplishments and Challenges from Past Practices

 

 

Chair(s):

James Blankenhorn, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)
Laurene Rowell, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)

 

Panel Report

 

This panel consisted of oral presentations followed by a 25 minute panel discussion. The panel focused on the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) of the US DOE, located in New York. It showcased the unique challenges and lessons learned from the decommissioning activities for the nation’s only commercial fuel reprocessing facility. It highlighted recent progress and technological advancements in High-level, Low-level, Transuranic and Greater-than-Class C Waste management practices, environmental remediation of groundwater, remote decontamination and decommissioning and High-level waste tank management.

Panelists included: Bryan Bower, Director-WV Demonstration Project, US DOE; John McKibbin, President, West Valley Environmental Services; Paul Bembia, Program Director, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority; and Larry Camper, US NRC (USA).

Panelists:

West Valley Demonstration Project Accomplishments and Challenges
Larry Camper, US NRC (USA)

   

 

 

Order

Paper Title

1

West Valley Demonstration Project - Past, Present, and Future - 11203
James Blankenhorn, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Bryan Bower, US DOE (USA)

2

Deactivation and Decontamination of Extraction Cell - 1 at the West Valley Demonstration Project, New York, USA - 11127
Joseph Ebert, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Cynthia Dayton, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)

3

Installation of a Tank and Vault Drying System in the Tank Farm at the West Valley Demonstration Project - 11113
John G. McKibbin, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Daniel Meess, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); K. K. Gupta, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Mark Bellis, US DOE (USA)

4

Design and Installation of a Permeable Treatment Wall at the West Valley Demonstration Project to Mitigate Expansion of Strontium-90 Contaminated Groundwater - 11138
John Chamberlain, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Linda Michalczak, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Shannon Seneca, State University of New York at Buffalo (USA)

5

Getting WVDP Wastes on the Right Path to Disposal - 11140
Margaret Loop, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Laurene Rowell, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)

6

CH and RH Legacy Waste Processing at the WVDP: Utilizing All of Your Processing Facilities, "Even the Ones You Didn't Think Were Processing Facilities" - 11160
David Garber, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Margaret Loop, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Kevin Slomba, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)

7

Decontamination Using Remote-Deployed Nitrocision® Technology - 11221
Lettie Chilson, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA); Lora Winkler, West Valley Environmental Services, LLC (USA)

   
   
 
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