RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman says the Hanford nuclear reservation will not be the final resting place for radioactive waste that is turned into glass logs at a treatment plant.
During a visit Monday Poneman told KVEW the waste would be moved, regardless of what happens with the rejected disposal site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Poneman spoke to workers building the $12 billion vitrification plant and stressed that safety is the utmost importance.
The plant is being built to process 53 million gallons of hazardous waste now held in underground tanks.
