SRS Watch & Nuclear Watch of New Mexico news release on DOE documents on plutonium “pit” production covered in article:
“Report: MOX project dead, more waste and 1,800 jobs from replacement”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, May 31, 2018
“On the eve of South Carolina seeking an injunction to try and preserve the MOX project at Savannah River Site, advocacy groups release a report where federal agencies consider the project dead but are proposing to put a key production facility for nuclear weapons in its place. But putting a plutonium pit production facility inside the building that would have housed the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility could generate 1,800 but also high-level waste, the groups said.”
The plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle is thankfully nearing its wasteful end but don’t bet on the partially constructed MOX plant being converted into a nuclear bomb factory – for plutonium “pit” production for new nuclear weapons. DOE hasn’t justified it and Congress hasn’t supported or funded it.