Décembre 2015 / Reuters

Critics of U.S. plutonium cleanup program seize on new report

WASHINGTON | By Andrea Shalal | Tue Dec 8, 2015 9:15pm EST

Critics of a multibillion-dollar program to convert excess U.S. weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors under a 2000 treaty with Russia have seized on a newly disclosed report to renew calls for an end to the project.

The fiscal 2016 defense authorization law includes $345 million in funding for a plant under construction at the DOE's Savannah River site in South Carolina, which will take 34 (…)

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