MOX

Ploughshares Fund is proud to have supported organizations – including the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, the Project on Government Oversight and many more – who worked with Congress to put the MOX project in check and push for smarter solutions. As of today, October 15, 2018, the project is over: "The Trump administration this week killed a contract for a project to convert plutonium from Cold War-era bombs into power, which it has said would cost tens of billions of dollars, after its supporters lost a legal battle."

Photo: Sign near the entrance to the Savannah River Site. Flickr / Bill Golladay (cc). Taken July, 3, 2012.

  • Time to Pull the Plug on MOX

    Time to Pull the Plug on MOX

    Some things never seem to change, sometimes to the detriment of the US taxpayer. Allowing parochial interests to trump national ones is a Washington tradition that lives on. Case in point: this week Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) placed a “hold” on the ...

    April 30, 2013 - By Paul Carroll
  • Plutonium Waste Begets Budget Waste

    Plutonium Waste Begets Budget Waste

    Many in Congress fumed last year when a green energy company – Solyndra – defaulted on a $535 million government loan, resulting from some bad management decisions and the market falling out from under the company. What happens when the government spends $5 billion on a poorly managed plutonium...

    January 23, 2013 - By Ben Loehrke
  • Bombs Mean Big Business for Big Business

    Bombs Mean Big Business for Big Business

    Lobbies claim that thousands of companies benefit from nuclear weapons spending. But according to a new report from the Center for International Policy, those claims are far from reality. In truth, only a handful of companies stand to gain significantly, with a network of subcontractors behind...

    June 27, 2012 - By Nora Wilkinson