Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

NNSA DIRECTS FIVE-YEAR ‘LAY UP’ OF WASTE SOLIDIFICATION BUILDING

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Kenneth Fletcher
NS&D Monitor
1/24/2014
Given delays in the construction of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, the National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to “lay up” the Waste Solidification Building for five years as construction…

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