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In a budget proposal Wednesday, the Obama administration said it will explore alternatives to the Savannah River Site's MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and proposed a $133 million cut to the project's budget. Within the Department of Energy section of the 2014 budget proposal sent to Congress,...

An ongoing review of the MOX nuclear fuel plant at the Savannah River Site has pegged its cost at $7.7 billion, nearly $1 billion more than an estimate put forward last month. In recent years, the Government Accountability Office has scrutinized the Department of Energy's management of large contracts...

A South Carolina technical college near the Savannah River Nuclear Site is closer to realizing its fundraising goal for a new technology center following recent donations from SRS contractors. Aiken Technical College announced Thursday that Shaw Areva MOX Services donated $100,000 toward the school's...

- Edited By Chris Reed - DRS Consolidated Controls, a DRS Defense Solutions line of business, announced yesterday that it has been awarded a contract to supply Fairbanks Morse Engine with nuclear safety rated controls for emergency diesel generators. The controls will operate and monitor emergency...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - Diversified Metal Products, Inc., an Idaho Falls, ID small business, recently won 6 contracts in excess of $8.5M from Shaw AREVA MOX Services for work to be performed for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX) at the DOE's Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC. DMP...

NRC review found MOX facility construction activities acceptable overall, and also determined that the program was being sufficiently implemented to support ongoing construction - By Linton Levy - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has scheduled a meeting with officials of Shaw Areva MOX Services...

The order requires Shaw AREVA MOX Services, the company building the facility, to adhere to changes in its NRC construction authorization - By Linton Levy - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Confirmatory Order to the mixed oxide facility under construction at the Department of...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About MOX Fuels - By Duncan Williams - Last week a nuclear reactor in Genkai, Japan, became the first Japanese nuclear reactor to use a type of nuclear fuel known as mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Although uncommon in Japan and America, MOX fuel is currently used in...

Project is expected to begin in the fourth quarter 2009 and will take approximately a year from design through delivery - By Linton Levy - Flanders Corporation has won a purchase agreement for 145 Filtration Containment Systems for the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility from Shaw AREVA...

The projects are to begin the fourth quarter of 2009 - By Stephen Heiser - Flanders Corporation won two more purchase agreements from Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC related to the mixed oxide (MOX) fuel project at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina: -- 12 Glove boxes and...

Shaw AREVA MOX Services and Tennessee Valley Authority Sign Letter of Intent to Evaluate MOX Fuel - By Stephen Heiser - The Shaw Group Inc. has announced that Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC (MOX Services) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have signed a letter of intent to enter into contract...