Is waste from the West Valley, NY, former commercial spent fuel reprocessing facility located at NFS? Also, is waste from NFS located at Bumpass Cove, TN?
No. Waste from the West Valley, NY, former commercial spent fuel reprocessing facility is not located at NFS. In addition, NFS does not have waste located at Bumpass Cove, TN. The NRC was aware that the mixed oxide fuel work that NFS performed for West Valley in the 1970s resulted in contamination of the land beneath Building 234 on the NFS site. However, this waste resulted from operations at NFS, not the disposal of West Valley waste at NFS. Nuclear Fuel Services, under NRC’s oversight, has and will continue to decommission and decontaminate that portion of the property. Nuclear Fuel Services has indicated an intent to resume Building 234 decommissioning activities as early as 2010. In addition, waste from the NFS Erwin facility has not been buried at Bumpass Cove. The NRC staff conferred with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and State officials who stated that the Bumpass Cove landfill was cleaned up and the site was archived as an EPA Superfund Site in 2003, meaning no f
