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Nuclear Modernization

Settlement Talks Collapse in South Carolina’s $200-Million Plutonium Lawsuit

Monday, July 1st, 2019

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Settlement Talks Collapse in South Carolina’s $200-Million Plutonium Lawsuit

The partially completed Mox Fuel Fabrication Facility: a plutonium disposal plant that the Department of Energy wants to convert into a factory for nuclear weapon cores. Source: McDermott International

South Carolina and the Department of Energy said last week they had failed to settle a $200 million lawsuit over the federal government's failure to begin removing weapon-usable plutonium from the state by Jan. 1, 2016. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims case had been on hold for about a year, during which DoE made only a single “lowball” settlement offer that South Carolina “rejected out of hand,” according to a status report filed Friday by the state's legal team.…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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