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Aiken Standard
March 20, 2018
The leader of the National Nuclear Security Administration told a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday she believes the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site is "nowhere close" to 50 percent complete. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, who was sworn in as both the NNSAÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 14, 2018
... Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration Lisa Gordon-Hagerty before her tour of the Savannah River Site. U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, R-Ga., accompanied Gordon-Hagerty on her actual tour. She visited the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and K-Area specifically,Ãâà...
Aiken Standard
March 9, 2018
Gordon-Hagerty specifically toured the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility – the currently 70-percent complete, billions-over-budget plutonium processing plant – and K-Area, an interim plutonium storage complex. K-Area is the target of a potential $60 million injection related to plutonium disposition,Ãâà...
Aiken Standard
March 7, 2018
The NNSA analysis outlines two SRS pit production options: build a brand new facility from the ground up, or repurpose the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, a roughly three-fourths complete weapons-grade plutonium processing plant. McMaster is an outspoken fan of MOX – "I don't want to repurposeÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 5, 2018
It is the National Nuclear Security Administration's preferred alternative to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, another SRS facility poised, upon completion, to process plutonium. The termination of MOX is an ongoing – and controversial – battle. The 2019 budget request is congruous with terminationÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 3, 2018
The National Nuclear Security Administration has, in a formal analysis, suggested rebooting pit production at the Los Alamos location or repurposing the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at SRS for it. A new facility at SRS could be constructed, as well, the analysis states. The chemistry division at LosÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 20, 2018
During a stop in Aiken, the state attorney general said he disagrees with President Donald Trump's budget request to defund the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, adding that he is pro-national security and pro-Savannah River Site. Attorney General Alan Wilson spoke to the Aiken Republican Club onÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 19, 2018
Tom Young's words — about President Donald Trump's request to close the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site. Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget request, released last week, allots $220 million for the orderly and safe closure of MOX, a facility that would, upon completion, turnÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 16, 2018
C., over the future of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. MOX, an over-budget, under construction SRS facility, would turn weapons-grade plutonium into usable commercial reactor fuel upon project completion. Graham – along with Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. – is an ardent supporter of MOX. In a visit toÃâà...
All Things Nuclear
February 15, 2018
The current cost estimate for the DOE's Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site, which is being built to convert 2 metric tons of plutonium annually into fuel for operating light-water reactors, is more than $17 billion. Then there's the cost of managing and disposing of the several tonsÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 13, 2018
This is where we are as a state… and as a community of Aiken County. We gained MOX, we have MOX and we have to stand by it. We are past the point of no return. MOX, for those who haven't read enough ad nauseum, is the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, which will create commercial nuclear fuelÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 12, 2018
President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget request nixes the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and allocates more than $30 billion to the U.S. Department of Energy. “This proposal will empower DOE to achieve our missions efficiently and effectively while being respectful to the AmericanÃâà...
The Augusta Chronicle
February 12, 2018
The Department of Energy's budget request for fiscal 2019 asks for money to close the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and says the agency prefers the “dilute and dispose” method to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium. “The Budget Request includes $220 million to continue theÃâà...
Aiken Standard
February 8, 2018
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration believes plutonium pit production to be a pressing priority. The nominee also said she is willing to cooperate with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to figure out the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Another option would be to use the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, which was first designed to convert weapons grade plutonium in commercial reactor fuel. However, this project is already billions of dollars over budget and not even completed. Both the Obama and TrumpÃâà...
Manhattan Mercury
December 31, 1999
An alternative would include repurposing one of the most problematic projects the Department of Energy has ever undertaken, the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, to make pits. Originally designed to turn weapons grade plutonium into commercial reactor fuel, the MOX facility isÃâà...
Aiken Standard
December 31, 1999
A federal spending bill, first unveiled Wednesday, includes funding for the ever-tumultuous Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site. The fiscal year 2018 omnibus package, which was advanced by the U.S. House early Thursday, includes $335 million for the ongoing construction ofÃâà...
Aiken Standard
December 31, 1999
The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site could be fully shuttered as early as 2021, U.S. Department of Energy fiscal year 2019 budget documents reveal. If the 2019 budget request, which includes $220 million to terminate MOX, is approved by Congress, the DOE would "direct"Ãâà...
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