Nuke agency pitches plutonium pits for Savannah River Site
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) " Energy Secretary Rick Perry has formally ended construction of a facility meant to reprocess weapons-grade plutonium and uranium into fuel for reactors, a key element of the nation's commitment to containing the global nuclear threat.Perry executed a waiver on Thursday to terminate construction of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.A day earlier, Perry called it a "historically questionable" expenditure in [...]
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