DOE Confirms Award Fee for MOX Services has been Terminated Starting with FY 2017; Annual Report on MOX Plant Not Delivered to Congress by February 15, as Legally Required, Still Under Review
Columbia, SC – The U.S. Department of Energy has revealed it is no longer is required to develop an award fee plan to determine an annual bonus for the contractor designing and constructing the problem-plagued plutonium fuel (MOX) project at the Savannah River Site.
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In parallel, DOE has informed SRS Watch that the congressionally mandated annual report on the status of MOX plant construction was not delivered by the required date of February 15, 2018. A FOIA response dated April 24, 2018 stated that NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20) did not finalize the required document and that “the requested document is in the concurrence process and the date of completion cannot be provided at this time.”
full SRS Watch news release linked here
photo: MOX site, January 31, 2018, ©High Flyer, more aerial photos on MOX boondoggle and SRS linked here