
The Department of Energy on Monday said it has started moving a metric ton of plutonium out of South Carolina after three federal appeals judges on Friday shot down the agency's argument that a lower court's order to remove the material from the palmetto state by Jan. 1, 2020 was legally flawed.Barring an escalation to the U.S. Supreme Court, or a rehearing in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the agency now has a little less than a year to move the bomb…