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October 16, 2019

Supreme Court lets US stop work on $8 billion SC nuclear fuel plant

  • The project was over budget, behind schedule and decades away from completion.
    • By JEFFREY COLLINS
    Associated Press

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — The federal government does not have to restart construction on a nuclear fuel facility in South Carolina that it abandoned after spending nearly $8 billion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

    The justices refused without comment to hear South Carolina's appeal of a lower court decision last October that allowed the U.S. Energy Department to stop building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken.


     
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