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riversedge

(70,299 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:39 AM Oct 2018

Trump administration kills contract for plutonium-to-fuel plant--Lindsey Gramham's SC......





October 12, 2018 / 5:11 PM / Updated 17 hours ago


Trump administration kills contract for plutonium-to-fuel plant

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-plutonium-mox/trump-administration-kills-contract-for-plutonium-to-fuel-plant-idUSKCN1MM2N0
Timothy Gardner

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

CB&I Areva MOX Services LLC, a consortium including France’s state-owned Orano, formerly called Areva, has been building the Mixed Oxide (MOX) project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina since 2007.

But the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration told it in a letter dated Oct. 10 that the project was over. “This notice terminates the contract in its entirety, and is effective immediately,” said the letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.



The move came a day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit halted a lower court’s injunction of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) plan to shut the plant.

MOX Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

South Carolina politicians, including Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, have defended the MOX plant, saying it was about 70 percent complete, would help keep plutonium out of the hands of militants, and provide up to 600 direct jobs. ...............................
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Trump administration kills contract for plutonium-to-fuel plant--Lindsey Gramham's SC...... (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2018 OP
Your Thanks Lindsey For All Your Crawling Me. Oct 2018 #1
but don't count on it. Look at Chris Christie. WhiteTara Oct 2018 #3
I don't disagree with the decision but what will we do with the plutonium? manor321 Oct 2018 #2
Do with it what they're doing with other nuclear waste. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #9
What about the jobs? Iliyah Oct 2018 #4
Graham is a good little conservative. WeekiWater Oct 2018 #5
The real story is Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #6
You are confusing this with the Summer Nuclear Plant, which was being built outside of Columbia. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #8
Sorry oops,thought it was the same. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #10
I think they tried to kill MOX a few times. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #11
Did hear from a prospector friend. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #12
That doesn't surprise me. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #13
Just a thought,did not Westinghouse file Bankruptcy Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #14
Yep. They filed early last year. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #15
Thansks,Toshiba was the name I was looking for. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #16
I vaguely remember teh Siemens thing. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #17
That was Sperm Thurmond's baby, IIRC. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #7
Just take that much longer for Lindsey to get the taste of ass out of his mouth hatrack Oct 2018 #18

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. Your Thanks Lindsey For All Your Crawling
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:43 AM
Oct 2018

maybe you should lick his shoe with your tongue to get that Attorney General spot

 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
2. I don't disagree with the decision but what will we do with the plutonium?
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:49 AM
Oct 2018

It's not like we can just dump the plutonium in the garbage and forget about it. Something has to be done with it. As long as it exists, we have to very carefully manage and protect it.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
9. Do with it what they're doing with other nuclear waste.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:35 PM
Oct 2018

There is another facility on the same DOE site that encases nuclear waste in glass, where it can be stored somewhere. Glassifying it makes it more difficult for it to fall into the wrong hands. And, if it does, it makes it difficult for them to do anything with it. But, yes. Where do you store it? The problem is that nobody wants that shit in their backyards. Not that I blame them.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. What about the jobs?
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:51 AM
Oct 2018

With t-rump administration cutting off millions, billions of dollars from USA's businesses, social programs, healthcare, where is the money being diverted too besides the military? Didn't the military just cut funding - f-35 (I think)?

Because the money sure ain't being tickle down to the working middle class and poor.

Welfare for the farmers in which t-rump's administration caused the problem.

The economy is on life support.

 

WeekiWater

(3,259 posts)
5. Graham is a good little conservative.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:53 AM
Oct 2018

I’m sure he can get the state to finish the project. Maybe even the county it’s located in can pay for the rest. Keep it local!

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. The real story is
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:09 PM
Oct 2018

the South Carolina Rate Payers woke up and started screaming about how Southern Companies were passing on the total cost of this plant on them as well as all the costs associated with the possibility of decommissioning the whole project.

When little Lindsey could not secure the 8 Billion free bailout from Taxpayers to complete this as well as make his Donors whole,notice it is now headed to Bankruptcy Court.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
8. You are confusing this with the Summer Nuclear Plant, which was being built outside of Columbia.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:30 PM
Oct 2018

They are two different projects. The Summer plant was being built by SCANA Corp., the corporate owners of South Carolina Electric & Gas. That boondoggle is being passed off onto those of us who are its customers. The MOX facility is a US DOE project, and is a whole separate facility, located about 100 miles to the west, on the Savannah River Site. We're all paying for that, not just South Carolina rate payers.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Sorry oops,thought it was the same.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:39 PM
Oct 2018

Thought that MOX was dead on arrival a few years ago. Thanks for the correction. Again,we pick up the tab one way another.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
11. I think they tried to kill MOX a few times.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:57 PM
Oct 2018

Looks like they finally succeeded. At least for now. Which, at this point, is really stupid, given how far along they are.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
12. Did hear from a prospector friend.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:26 PM
Oct 2018

That a Uranium Mining deal went south because of Nuke Plants being killed off.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
13. That doesn't surprise me.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:51 PM
Oct 2018

They're finally realizing that renewables are the cheapest way to go. I'm guessing that SCANA realized that it was cheaper to abandon the plant they were building, than it was to finish it and operate it. Waste disposal is probably outrageously expensive as well.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
14. Just a thought,did not Westinghouse file Bankruptcy
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 07:04 PM
Oct 2018

and were not able to obtain funds for the build out of the Reactor's. Sad,can't remember when Bloomberg had a story about the connection . Do remember our so called Presidente bragging about this project even though he was digging coal or something he was digging. Most lively picking his nose after a snort of bad Blow.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
15. Yep. They filed early last year.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 07:42 PM
Oct 2018

They were the ones building the VC Summer plant, in partnership with SCANA. They're also building two more reactors at the already existing Plant Vogtle (Georgia Power), which is right across the river from the Savannah River Site. I guess they were bought by some Canadian asset management company.

Ironically, Westinghouse was the operating contractor of the SRS for at least a decade. They decided not to renew the contract around the time the MOX facility was approved. They decided they no longer wanted the hassle of running the place. They were bought by Toshiba at some point, and that may also have had something to do withi it.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
16. Thansks,Toshiba was the name I was looking for.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 08:48 PM
Oct 2018

And they bought Westinghouse for just their service contracts,and wanted to spin Westinghouse off to any sucker willing to take it.

Do remember Siemen's were in negotiations to buy Westinghouse some time back,but after due diligence and finding issues of liabilities,they end those discussions. Westinghouse after all is damn old technology to say the least. Their money maker they sold off years ago. And that was their Air Brake Systems for Rail Cars.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
17. I vaguely remember teh Siemens thing.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 10:33 PM
Oct 2018

I stopped paying attention to Westinghouse after they decided to part ways with DOE. I hadn't even realized that they were owned by Toshiba until long after it happened.

GoCubsGo

(32,090 posts)
7. That was Sperm Thurmond's baby, IIRC.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:19 PM
Oct 2018

That plant is located in Joe "You Lie!" Wilson's district, BTW. These republicans hate government pork, unless it's their pork.

hatrack

(59,592 posts)
18. Just take that much longer for Lindsey to get the taste of ass out of his mouth
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 10:38 PM
Oct 2018

You shredded whatever reputation you had left on national television for this?

Sucks to be you.

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