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MOX Plant Expense Spikes by $2B, GAO Finds
A new Government Accountability Office report cites a $2 billion increase in the cost of a facility in South Carolina being built to convert nuclear weapon plutonium into nuclear reactor fuel, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
The total cost for the facility at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Savannah River Site is now projected at slightly less than $7 billion. The mixed-oxide plant is not due to open for several years.
The update is included in a yearly GAO update on "high-risk" federal government operations. Congress' investigative arm indicates it is continuing to study the project.
"GAO is currently conducting work on NNSA's project to construct its Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site, to which NNSA recently added $2 billion to the project's cost estimate even as the facility nears completion," the report states.
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U.S. Nuclear Cooperation as Nonproliferation: Reforms, or the Devil You Know?
Nov. 27, 2012
Several U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements are set to expire in the next four years, and a long list of nuclear newcomers are interested in concluding new agreements with the United States. Jessica C. Varnum examines the debate over whether stricter nonproliferation preconditions for concluding these new and renewal "123" nuclear cooperation agreements with the United States would enhance or undermine their value as instruments of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
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Global Dialogue October 2012 Meeting
Nov. 9, 2012
This report includes resources from the October 2012 meeting of the Global Dialogue on Nuclear Security Priorities in Dalfsen, The Netherlands.
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United States
This article provides an overview of the United States’ historical and current policies relating to nuclear, chemical, biological and missile proliferation.
