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Managing the Savannah River conversion and its $23.5 billion baseline
The Savannah River Site's half-built MOX plant was meant to start turning surplus weapons plutonium into commercial reactor fuel in 2016. It never opened. On Oct. 15, the Energy Department approved a $23.5 billion baseline and full construction to convert the roughly 400,000-square-foot shell into a factory for plutonium pits.
Updated Yesterday
As of May 2026: Lead agency on the Venezuela removal
About 13.5 kilograms of bomb-grade uranium sat in a shuttered Venezuelan research reactor for 35 years. This week the US flew it to a processing site in South Carolina, less than six weeks after inspectors first walked the floor.
Updated May 31
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