Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Main plant demo at West Valley gets underway

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ARLINGTON, VA. —The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project in upstate New York has started tearing down the Main Plant Process Building this week, executives said here Thursday during the National Cleanup…

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