SRS Watch news, February 11, 2019
See NRC letter and two enclosures linked in “notes” at end of release
Columbia, SC – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken the irreversible step to terminate the construction license for the plutonium fuel (MOX) project at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The action by the NRC means that any hopes of reviving the MOX project are now officially dead, according to Savannah River Site Watch.
full SRS Watch news release linked here
Officially, DOE must now amend the Record of Decision (ROD) – under the National Environ mental Policy Act (NEPA) – advocating MOX but if they don’t the project has still been irreversibly terminated.
This whole plutonium disposition mess rests in large part of the sagging shoulders of Senator Lindsey “MOXie” Graham of South Carolina. Graham’s favorite boondoggle – MOX – has now turned into his worst nightmare.