
With late-stage design activities underfunded for most of the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, the Department of Energy is passing around the hat for a planned pit-production plant to be built from the remains of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina an agency official said Friday. “We’re working with the program office to get a stable funding source,” Scott Cannon, the DoE National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) director of project management…