Graham Questions Nuclear Security Administrator On MOX Program

will make this is painless as possible okay dnmt a minute good that's a warning about

it alright so here's the deal we've got thirty four metric tons of weapons grade plutonium at Savannah River site that

will be converted from weapons grade material to commercial grade nuclear fuel or

taken swords to plowshares has pretty good right seventeen hundred warheads will be disposed of for ever do

you agree with that Mr Miller I do agree and we have an agreement with the Russians for they will do the they will dispose of thirty four metric tons that's

right that's right so this is a good thing it's been going on since the nineties now we've been studying since the nineties how to dispose

of the %HESITATION plutonium and direct disposition would be a violation agreement do you agree with that it

would be a violation of the agreement IBM because she could reconstituted we want to make sure that

and we have an agreement with the Russian side in two thousand ten or was a we will put the thirty four times

to the Marxist indeterminate turn it into commercial grade feels that correct yes and part of that %HESITATION

mocks plan was to build three facilities at Savannah River site %HESITATION one for PDC if one for waste and the other the box that

correct that was the plan okay in because we're such good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and were so creative and

how did a good job here on the death we found a way to save two billion dollars by not building the PT three

P. D. C. F. facilities at correct we hope it will be that much yeah so we think it'll be two billion dollars we

don't have to build a third facility now an environmental impact study was done %HESITATION when we're talking about the peak PDC

F. Asilah di and %HESITATION if you went down the %HESITATION vitrification route turning all listen the glass %HESITATION

that study said you'd have to bring and high level waste from somewhere else to make this work do you remember that I

study also said that the current vitrification facility cannot process thirty four metric tons of plutonium you

have to build a new facility and it would be in violation of the agreement with the Russians so my state madam

chairman years ago accepted thirty four metric tons of plutonium with the promise we would dispose of it in a way to make the world safer create

and I want to compliment the Obama administration you're the first people there actually build anything we've been talking about forever

you are you sure well the estimate a year ago was that the cost to complete the full cost of construction

would be about four billion dollars we are now entertaining a baseline change proposal from the contractor for

nearly eight billion dollars well my goodness is that right the last numbers were given around six let's say is let's

say it's a we're we're saying six here there yeah but let's just less less just live on the edge here I