Workers have prepared more than 690 pounds of plutonium residue at the Rocky Flats former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado for shipment to New Mexico, where authorities are to bury the plutonium in salt caverns, Rocky Flats spokesman Bill Badger said yesterday.  The residue was a byproduct of plutonium recovery operations at the plant.

Badger said workers also prepared for shipment 7,000 pounds of waste contaminated by plutonium, although he did not provide information on when that waste would be shipped.

Located northwest of Denver, Rocky Flats produced plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons before closing in 1989 (Associated Press, Dec. 4).

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