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October 13, 2018 07:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZqLRpAfwov8/america-finally-abandons-plan-to-convert-plutonium-bombs-into-nuclear-fuel
America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel
MOX hoped to convert plutonium from Cold War bombs into fuel for nuclear power plants, but even though the project was about 70% complete, Washington has pulled the plug. Slashdot reader Mr. Dollar Ton shared this story from Reuters:The Department of Energy told Senate and House of Representatives committees in May that MOX, a type of specialized nuclear recycling plant that has never been built in the United States, would cost about $48 billion more than the $7.6 billion already spent on it. Instead of completing MOX, the Trump administration, like the Obama administration before it, wants to blend the 34 tonnes of deadly plutonium -- enough to make about 8,000 nuclear weapons -- with an inert substance and bury it underground in New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Burying the plutonium would cost nearly $20 billion over the next two decades and would require 400 jobs at Savannah River, the Department of Energy has estimated.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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