Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, Rainier Ore

Trojan expected to complete the loading of the idle facility's 1,020-ton reactor vessel onto a trailer May 26, 1999. The vessel was wheeled out of the containment building on the Bigge large rail system. Workers prepare it for a 270-mile barge trip upriver for burial at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The 17-by-42-foot cylinder once held nuclear fuel rods, which were removed five years ago. The radioactive vessel is filled with 200 tons of concrete and sheathed in steel.