Federal Appellate Panel Hears MOX Termination Case; Indications are that Last-Ditch Plea by the State of South Carolina to Force DOE to Continue the Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Construction Project at SRS Will be Rejected
As New Fiscal Year Approaches, Termination of the MOX Boondoggle Seems More Certain Than Ever
Archive of Oral Argument before Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, September 27, 2018:
https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp3/18-1684-20180927.mp3
Columbia, South Carolina – A federal judicial panel reviewing the fate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s plutonium fuel (MOX) construction project appears to favor the position of allowing DOE to move forward with terminating the bungled project.
On September 27, a 3-judge panel with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA heard oral arguments by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which appealed a decision by a federal district court in Columbia, SC that blocked DOE’s termination of the problem-plagued MOX project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
full SRS Watch news release linked here