Congress Cuts MOX Funding for Fiscal Year 2017, Keeps Project on a Shut-down Track while Funding Alternative Plutonium Disposal Method (Dilute and Dispose) at Savannah River Site
Dreams of MOX boosters to get an Increase in funding not realized – far short of the touted $500 million they hoped for (an amount still not enough for the project to be carried to finalization)
Congress Requires DOE to Present “Long-Term Vision for Sustainment” of SRS, by June 30, 2017
SRS Watch news release of May 4, 2017 linked here
MOX Funding Alert: DOE budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is soon to be presented and we think MOX once again is on the razor’s edge of survival. Despite its precarious position no plan has been presented as to how the project can be made financially and technically viable and how extensive construction problems will be addressed.