Février 2016 / The New York Times

Half-Built Nuclear Fuel Plant in South Carolina Faces Test on Its Future

By JAMES RISENFEB. 8, 2016

WASHINGTON — Time may finally be running out on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, a multibillion-dollar, over-budget federal project that has been hard to kill.

The Energy Department has already spent about $4.5 billion on the half-built plant near Aiken, S.C., designed to make commercial reactor fuel out of plutonium from nuclear bombs. New estimates place the ultimate cost of the facility at between $9.4 billion and $21 billion, and the (...)

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