Quote of the month, which backs up our reporting that production of plutonium oxide in the HB-Line, for the failed MOX project, has ceased:

“Plutonium dissolution activities [in HB-Line] are on hold right now…[we] don’t anticipate that moving in the future.”

— Tony Polk, Director Nuclear Material Programs Division
DOE Savannah River Operations Office, on October 12, 2017 at the South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council, Columbia, South Carolina

SRS Watch news release, July 20, 2017 – linked here

“2017 Nuclear Materials Management Plan for DOE’s Savannah River Site Reveals Plutonium Oxide Production in HB-Line Halting – Setback for MOX as Main Source of Plutonium “Feedstock” Eliminated;
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: Nuclear Material Shipment to
​H-Canyon and HB-Line Halted”