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Court Ends Final Bid to Save MOX Program via Arms Control Association

Posted on 2020/04/30 by nfield

April 2020 A U.S. federal court dealt the final blow Feb. 20 to a troubled project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina that would have converted surplus plutonium from the U.S. nuclear weapons program into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel … Continue reading →

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No long-term prospects in Japan for reusing, storing spent MOX fuel via The Mainichi

Posted on 2020/01/15 by nfield

There are no prospects that spent mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, made by reprocessing spent nuclear material, can be further reprocessed and reused for nuclear power generation in accordance with the Japanese government’s energy policy. Storing such fuel for a long period … Continue reading →

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