New Doubts About Turning Plutonium Into a Fuel (Published 2011)

THE VISION A plant being built near Aiken, S.C., would turn weapons-grade plutonium into a fuel called mox.Credit...Shaw Areva Mox Services On a tract of government land along the Savannah River in South Carolina, an army of workers is building one of the nation’s most ambitious nuclear enterprises in decades: a plant that aims to safeguard at least 43 tons of weapons-grade plutonium by mixing it