Restructuring and Retrenchment in Nuclear Fuels

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Restructuring and Retrenchment in Nuclear Fuels

In 2000, the United States agreed with Russia to get rid of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium. To that end, it embarked on construction of a large plant at Savannah River, S.C.,where the plutonium would be mixed with uranium to make so-called mixed oxide fuel (MOX), suitable for use in nuclear power plants. Buried in the president's fiscal 2014 budget request is a line sharply cutting f

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