SRS officials study radioactive waste-management options
Officials
at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina will discuss the possible
next steps for the management of the site's high-level radioactive waste
when Department of Energy officials unveil a new disposal plan for the
material with Congress by the end of July. SRS officials were asked by
the site's Citizens Advisory Board to study transferring the material to
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. "Repository and interim
storage sites will be considered in accordance with a consent-based
process as outlined by the Blue Ribbon Commission," said David Moody,
SRS manager. The Augusta Chronicle (Ga.)
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