Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC

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Managing construction; cited by GAO for missing some performance targets

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.

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