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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
The plutonium inventory of the United States stood at 95.4 metric tons in 2009, 4.1 MT lower than in 1994, according to a new report from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 02 July 2012
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-plutonium-inventory-decreases-thanks-to-disposal-at-wipp