“OINK: TV ad skewers Lindsey Graham’s pork-barrel plutonium MOX boondoggle”
Time to again pull this 2013 Friends of the Earth TV ad against the plutonium fuel (MOX) boondoggle out of the closet. Ah, the good old days when MOX was only $6 billion over budget.
On all fronts the failed MOX project has gotten much worse since 2013. Lindsey manages to keep it barely on life support but it’s on a shut-down track with the funding Congress is giving it – $345 million/year. Senator Graham’s favorite boondoggle is about to get made into bacon so stay tuned.
Thanks to Friends of the Earth for having had the foresight to produce this timely ad!
Looking back to when the last hope for MOX was slipping away, remember the first public life-cycle cost estimate for the MOX project? By Tom Clements, then with Friends of the Earth and now with SRS Watch, in April 2013. That quick & dirty estimate determined that $22 billion was left to be spent on MOX but turns out it’s $47+ billion yet to be spent. The project wasn’t viable in 2013 and it certainly isn’t now. See the first life-cycle cost estimate here