— Congress will initially keep the plutonium fuel MOX project at the shut-down funding level (of $340 million/year);
— Reports will underscore that the $17 billion MOX plant construction at SRS is not viable due to cost challenges and chronic design and construction problems;
— Fiscal conservatives will wake up and realize the failure that MOX has become and that it has simply become a jobs program at SRS, pushing big spenders like Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Joe Wilson aside and formally terminate the MOX boondoggle;
— President Trump and Secretary of Energy Perry will act in the public interest and support MOX termination and alternative projects at SRS;
— Agency and court investigations into waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagment by CB&I AREVA MOX Services and such subcontractors as Superior Air Handling will ramp up, with federal fraud charges likely.
Of past and current employees at CB&I AREVA MOX Services and Superior Air Handling and other MOX contractos, who do you think is most legally culpable for possible fraudulent activities? Let us know what you think: srswatch@gmail.com
“Trial delayed in multi-million-dollar Savannah River Site MOX fraud case” – Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, January 6, 2017 – linked here