Hanford vit plant testing tank barged to Richland

A 65-ton stainless steel vessel that will be used in testing to resolve technical issues at the Hanford vitrification plant is loaded onto a barge in Vancouver, Wash., where it was fabricated. By the afternoon of July 12, it had traveled up the Columbia River to near Umatilla.

The vessel will be installed in the Full-Scale Vessel Test Facility in north Richland.

This story was originally published July 12, 2016 at 7:24 PM with the headline "Hanford vit plant testing tank barged to Richland."