West Valley, NY – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the public and the states of Nevada and Texas, and the Seneca Nation of Indians for review and comment, a Draft Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation for the concentrator feed makeup tank and the melter feed hold tank (the vessels) at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP). This Draft Evaluation, which may enable the Department to dispose of the vessels as low-level radioactive waste (LLW), is a necessary step in the Department’s cleanup efforts at WVDP and meets its obligations under the WVDP Act of 1980. The current schedule calls for disposition of the vessels by 2017. A 45-day public and state comment period will close August 13, 2012... For additional information, please click the link above.