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USA’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Farbrication (MOX) boondoggle stopped

Outsmarting the MOX POGO, By: Lydia Dennett 9 May 14 The Project On Government Oversight is pleased to note that in the President’s FY 2015 budget, released this week, a Department of Energy billion-dollar boondoggle has been put on “cold-standby.” This particular boondoggle would be the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication (MOX) Facility at the Savannah River Nuclear Site in South Carolina…

…A confidential study recently conducted by the Energy Department reports that yet another cost increase may have been the final nail in the coffin for MOX. The construction costs alone could be as high at $10 billion over the next five years, while operations costs could be an additional $34 billion over the next 15 years.

This astronomical cost increase, in addition to the $4 billion that has already been spent on construction of the facility, is all for a project that doesn’t have a single customer…..http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/03/20140307-outsmarting-the-mox.html

May 9, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general