MOX Cost Estimates Soar (As Expected) & More SRS News

News Release on Request of Shaw AREVA MOX Services & AREVA for MOX Life-Cycle Cost Estimate, April 17, 2014 – see letters linked under “library” – Department of Energy documents

South Carolina Supreme Court to Hear Big Industry and South Carolina Sierra Club Challenge to $278 Million in Cost Overruns of New Nuclear Plant in South Carolina, on April 16 in Columbia, SC – Sierra Club news release of April 14, 2014

$27 Billion Life-Cycle Cost Estimate for Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide (MOX) Plutonium Fuel Program – $22 Billion Left to be Spent on Top of $5 Billion Sunk – April 2013

— This is the Only Public Estimate as DOE/NNSA, Shaw AREVA MOX Services and Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Joe Wilson Refuse to Release their Estimates ; A FOIA Request was Filed in December 2013 for DOE’s Internal Assessment on Plutonium Disposition
By Tom Clements

Kein Export von Jülicher Atommüll nach South Carolina – SRS Watch statement against proposed export of spent fuel from Germany to the Savannah River Site, March 8, 2014 at Fukushima event in Jülich, Germany

NNSA Boss Confirms to Congress MOX Plant Cost Estimate “A Minimum” of $10 Billion; Affirms that a Cheaper Alternative for Plutonium Disposition Exists – April 4, 2014

Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) Formed to Monitor, Engage DOE Activities at the Savannah River Site – Including the Mismanaged MOX Program – and Track Nuclear Issues in the Southeast – April 3, 2014

NNSA Budget Request Affirms Cold Standby for MOX project and that an “Independent Assessment” will be Conducted on Cost of Preferred Plutonium Disposition Option, March 17, 2014

DOE Budget Puts Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project on Ice

SRS Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Continues to Spin Out of Control: Cost Jumps to $7.7 Billion, with Three Year Delay

DOE Reveals Delays in Plutonium Disposition Program

OINK: TV Ad Skewers Lindsey Graham’s Pork-Barrel Plutonium MOX Boondoggle