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Lindsey Graham, SC Gov. McMaster to meet Trump next week on nuclear project’s future,

The state’s Attorney General Alan Wilson also will be at the meeting, his office said……

In Columbia on Saturday, Graham called the federal government’s choice to shutter the MOX project a “stupid decision.”

But, so far, Graham, McMaster and other S.C. officials have been unable to sway Trump, or U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, to keep the project open.

The government already has spent billions of dollars on the facility, recently projected to cost at least $17 billion to complete.

Federal officials have wanted to abandon the project — construction started in 2007 — beginning under the Obama administration, which grew frustrated with the project’s growing cost and schedule delays.

Supporters of closing MOX say the weapons-grade material should be moved out to another facility in New Mexico. Officials and residents there, however, have balked at that suggestion…….https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2018/10/15/graham-sc-gov-mcmaster-meet-trump-nuclear-projects-future/1648418002/