Décembre 2015 / The Japan Times

In death knell for MOX project, U.S. to deem 6 tons of plutonium nuclear waste

Reuters

Dec 24, 2015

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – The U.S. government plans to designate 6 metric tons of surplus plutonium now stored in South Carolina as waste and ship it to a storage facility in New Mexico, according to a preliminary notice filed on a federal website on Wednesday.

The notice, to be posted on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), says its “preferred alternative” for disposal of the 6 metric tons of surplus plutonium would be to turn it (...)

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