Shaw AREVA MOX Services (SHAMS) has requested of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that construction authorization proceedings for the MOX plant be put into the name of the new corporate entity CB&I AREVA MOX Service, LLC – posted by the NRC in the ADAMS digital library on September 9 – see letter here – while there is a new name it’s the same old MOX boondoggle, for which there still is no accountability!
SRS Watch news release on MOX Boondoggle – September 3, 2014
Contractor Requests Ten-Year Extension to MOX Plant Construction License, from 2015 to 2025; Nuclear Regulatory Commission Has Not Approved Request, Public Meeting Needed on Mismanaged $30-billion Project
Shaw AREVA MOX Services (SHAMS) Sites Litany of Problems with MOX Boondoggle Construction but Avoids Details: Funding Shortfalls, Construction Challenges, Labor Shortages, Lack of Qualified Vendors
Click here for Shaw AREVA MOX Services License Extension Request to the NRC & at http://tinyurl.com/pldeeul
Columbia, SC – The contractor building the problem-plagued plutonium fuel (MOX) facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina has quietly requested a 10-year extension to the initial authorization to construct the facility. The extension request is indicative of a host of mounting problems facing the controversial MOX project, according to the public interest group Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch).
A Shaw AREVA MOX Services (MOX Services) letter, dated May 12, 2014, was filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and requested an extension in the construction authorization from 2015 to 2025. The letter, which was not publicized by either MOX Services, the National Nuclear Security Administration or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, gives no hint of when construction on the MOX plant might be completed, underscoring the belief that the project will never be completed and is soon to be abandoned.
SRS Watch has learned that the NRC has not yet granted the construction extension request. SRS Watch has been informed that an Environmental Assessment (EA) is being prepared by the NRC on the impacts of the request and a notice about the matter is expected to soon be published in the Federal Register.
The NRC does not at this point intend on holding a public meeting, but SRS Watch believes that a public meeting to air all the issues associated with the construction delay-request is warranted. “As the NRC did not hold an annual meeting this spring on the status of its MOX construction oversight, a public meeting on the construction authorization extension request is essential to fully discuss the matters associated with the massive delay of the mismanaged project,” said Tom Clements, director of the public interest organization SRS Watch.
see full news release here
see Shaw AREVA MOX Services (SHAMS) letter here