West Valley Environmental Services LLC
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Radioactive Waste Management, Processing, and Shipping
Since 1999, the WVDP has shipped off-site for disposal
approximately
1 million cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste generated
at the Project. Through 2011, WVES will safely process and dispose of the
remaining low-level radioactive legacy waste and newly generated waste,
including:
- Disposal of legacy low-level radioactive waste,
- Highly contaminated and large-scale equipment and debris using remote tooling,
- Packaging and disposal of newly generated waste resulting from on-site decontamination and dismantlement work, and
- Continued on-site safe storage of the solidified high-level waste stored in canisters.
Sorting radioactive waste before repacking and shipping
A box being remotely size-reduced in the Remote Handled Waste Facility
High-level waste canisters in storage in the Main Plant Process Building