Clinch River Favored as Atomic Waste Plant Site
Associated Press
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. —
The Energy Department announced Thursday that the Clinch River breeder reactor site is its “preferred” location for a $1-billion plant to process, package and temporarily store highly radioactive wastes.
An estimated 10,000 metric tons of civilian radioactive wastes, now being stored underwater in tanks at the nation’s 94 licensed atomic power plants, would be taken to the “monitored retrievable storage” facility.
The department plans to ask Congress in January to authorize construction of the depot.
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