Exchange Monitor, July 2, 2018 – article linked here
“The Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) will enjoy judicial protection from the federal ax for essentially the rest of the government’s 2018 fiscal year after an appeals court on Friday decided not to immediately lift a lower court’s ban on closing the plant.
South Carolina sued in May to prevent DOE from shuttering the over-budget plutonium disposal project at the Savannah River Site. On June 7, it secured an injunction from a U.S. District Court judge in South Carolina to keep the facility open at least for the duration of the lawsuit.
The Energy Department appealed the decision June 15, asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the injunction until after the higher court ruled on the appeal. The Fourth Circuit declined to do so Friday, wem ot scheduled oral arguments on the appeal for Sept. 25-28: days before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.”