Key DOE Environmental Review of Plan to Use Weapons Plutonium as Mixed Oxide Reactor fuel Delayed Again, Signaling Problems as Options Being Assessed

Friends of the Earth: Mixed oxide fuel is ‘massive waste’ of tax dollars and must be terminated

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2013. The Department of Energy has once again failed to meet its schedule on the release of a key environmental document on the review of use of plutonium fuel in commercial nuclear power reactors owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

After multiple delays since January, the release of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on…