The Savannah River Site’s Citizen’s Advisory Board is urging the Department of Energy to develop shipping containers for vitrified waste on site and look into disposing the waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Following the cancellation of the Yucca Mountain project, disposal in WIPP represents a “promising and likely approach” to disposition of canisters produced by the Defense Waste Processing Facility, according to a CAB recommendation submitted to DOE Friday. It goes on to note, “With the existing situation of stored waste on-Site there is absolutely no provision or realistic way for SRS to get the DWPF canisters off site in the next few years. This can be done only if a shipping container for the canisters is designed and developed and a facility is constructed to handle the loading of the canisters into the shipping containers.” Consequently, the CAB recommended development of shipping containers for both DWPF canisters and spent fuel on site, construction of a facility for handling the canisters for shipment and an explanation of how to gain approval for disposing of the material at WIPP. The CAB has requested a response by its next meeting on Sept. 25.