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The mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility will
be a major component in the United States’ program
to dispose of excess weapons grade plutonium. |
Nonproliferation
Programs
In the crucial field of nuclear nonproliferation, SRS employee contributions helped to advance all three of the planned plutonium disposition facilities at the Savannah River Site: the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility; Waste Solidification Building; and the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility.
A $345 million project, the Waste Solidification Building will process liquid waste from the MOX facility. After material is processed at the Waste Solidification Building, transuranic waste will be packaged and sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, and low-level waste will be packaged and sent to onsite or commercial off-site low-level waste disposal facilities.
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