Hanford Site in southeastern Washington arrived safely at the DOE's Portsmouth Site in Ohio on October 2.
Uranium trioxide is a low-enriched uranium powder that resembles small fertilizer pellets.
The first shipment left Hanford July 27, 2000. Prior to shipment, the uranium trioxide was stored in the 200 West Area, part of the Hanford Site called the Central Plateau. Together, these shipments will reduce Hanford's surplus uranium inventory by nearly 900 metric tons. Moving uranium out of the 200 and 300 Areas are important steps in DOE's plans to transform Hanford's Central Plateau and restore the Columbia River corridor. In that assessment, DOE determined that 900 metric tons of uranium trioxide and uranium metal billets have market value, and would be shipped to the Uranium Management Center at the Portsmouth Site.