Broad Scope Analysis of the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and Disposition of Plutonium
Year: 2019

The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA), signed into effect in 2000, between the United States and Russia, was made in a post-Cold War effort to dispose of military-useable material, a combined 68 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium. The United States has been pursuing a disposition path through conversion to MOX fuel for use in current commercial nuclear reactors. The Savannah River Site’s (SRS) MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF, the MOX facility) began construction in 200