Budget & Policy

DOE Holds off on MOX Suspension, but Pressure from Congress Continues

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Kenneth Fletcher
NS&D Monitor
5/2/2014
While the Department of Energy this week backed off from plans to immediately suspend work on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and released a long-awaited alternatives study, the plant’s supporters in…

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