Graham, Georgia Senators Speak on Importance of MOX Program

unlike you nasty consenting gauge in a column with Maria colleagues from Georgia that objection okay

thank you of this is about not Duggar earning money is is a appointment to the %HESITATION

be secretary of energy I put a hold on %HESITATION doctor money's not because anything do with him he's wonderful fella MIT

all of us and George in South Carolina for to working with him what we've been upset about is that the

Obama administration's decision to stop construction temporarily %HESITATION

of the mocs facility it's about sixty percent complete what is marked it is a program to take thirty four metric tons of weapons grade plutonium an

excess of our defense needs and dispose of it by turning it into commercial grade fuel it

there is an agreement between the United States and Russia they would dispose at thirty four metric tons we with dispose

of thirty four metric tons and we've been studying how to do that and in two thousand and ten %HESITATION the federal government the

Obama administration in the agreement with the Russians to move forward said that we would mocks

the thirty four metric tons of weapons grade plutonium we would turn it into mix oxide feel to be used in commercial reactors so

technology deployed in France and that was the way forward into the administration's credit were

falling moving forward we went to the facility myself summarizing consider Chambliss couple years ago and finally saw the thing moving forward is

about sixty percent built now in the budget proposal the president they stopped construction the

study in alternative there is no other alternative if you tried to turn it into victory vitrified glass material that

would take more money and more time than doing mocks and it has been proven to work the

way it's set up today %HESITATION at the end of the day the problems that we should be focusing on is the cost overruns of the month program it's

about two billion dollars over cost and I would join with administration the set and the contractor and

try to recoup that two billion dollars to find a way forward to make it affordable there's a statutes in place that

require a hundred million dollar a year fine to be paid to stay in South Carolina if we don't meet our disposition

for the country is good for the world and now that we've stopped study our fear is that we're not we're

technology that there there is no other way to do it within starting this for about fifteen years and will be breaking the agreement with the Russians other

than that we don't have a problem with their doing what we want to do is set around with the contractor in their ministrations a lower cost of the program the

keep it moving forward this administration has taught consistently about reducing nuclear proliferation in making the world safer from the use of nuclear materials this

is a program that started in the Clinton administration bush now bomber that really would accomplish that thirty