Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Administration Turns Away From MOX in Recent Surplus Plutonium SEIS

By Photo of Brian Bradley

Kenneth Fletcher
NS&D Monitor 
5/8/2015
In another step by the Obama Administration away from the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, the long-awaited Surplus Plutonium Disposition Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement no longer includes…

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