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US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has written to Congress informing it that he has effectively ended the project to construct a mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The facility, about 70% complete, was intended to dispose of 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium by turning it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Perry-scraps-completion-of-US-MOX-facility
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
Russia has shut down its last reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium. The ADE-2 reactor had been producing weapons-grade plutonium for nearly 52 years in Zheleznogorsk, the former secret Siberian city.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-shuts-its-last-plutonium-producing-reactor