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US President Barack Obama wants to scrap the Department of Energy's project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina that was designed to take plutonium no longer needed for nuclear weapons and turn it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Obama-seeks-to-terminate-MOX-project-at-Savannah-R
Disposal of US weapons-grade plutonium in a repository would be more economical than through the continued construction and operation of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) being built at the Department of Energy's Savannah River site in South Carolina. This is the conclusion of the Red Team, headed by Thom Mason, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory set up by US Department of Energy (DOE) in June to review "plutonium disposition options and make recommendations".
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 24 August 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-rules-out-mox-plant-4653653