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The Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant being built in South Carolina is over budget, nearly a decade behind schedule, and now has an ever bigger problem: no customers for its reactor fuel made from surplus weapons plutonium. “Taxpayers are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars a year into a facility that may never be used,” said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists [2]. “The pork barrel nature of this project has never been more evident.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/382
[2] http://www.ucsusa.org/
[3] http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/weapons-plutonium-a-tough-sell-as-reactor-fuel/