Halted DOE Plant Prompts Project Management Scrutiny | 2019-01-09 | Engineering News-Record

Halted DOE Plant Prompts Project Management Scrutiny | 2019-01-09 | Engineering News-Record: Federal auditors point to project management inexperience at the U.S. Energy Dept. and its National Nuclear Security Administration as a key reason that caused the estimated final cost of the Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) Fabrication facility in South Carolina to rise to $17.2 billion from its original $4.8-billion estimate, and its planned finish to be off by 32 years. The facility, intended as a central plutonium disposal site, was scrapped in October. DOE began the MOX project at its Savannah River former weapons site in . . .