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A federal appeals court on Tuesday effectively cleared the Department of Energy to cancel construction of a controversial plutonium disposal plant under construction in South Carolina.The decision, which followed oral arguments before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in late September, could result in the eventual loss of some 2,000 jobs at MOX Services, prime contractor for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF): an unfinished, over-budget plant designed to turn some 34 metric tons of surplus, weapon-usable plutonium…
