Post by pavel on Jan 26, 2016 18:37:33 GMT -6
Gov. Nikki Haley asks state attorney general to sue Energy Department over MOX project
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley on Tuesday moved forward with her threat to sue the U.S. Department of Energy for the agency’s failure to meet a Jan. 1 nuclear fuel deadline, asking South Carolina’s top prosecutor to pursue litigation and collection of $1 million daily fines.
“The federal government has, once again, failed to keep its promise to the people of our state,” Haley wrote to Attorney General Alan Wilson in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. “South Carolina will not sit idly by while DOE continues – in violation of federal law – to ignore its commitment to the people of South Carolina.”
Savannah River Site’s mixed-oxide project – known as MOX – is intended to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel. It is years behind schedule and billions over its original budget.
Officials with the Department of Energy did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2016-01-26/gov-nikki-haley-asks-state-attorney-general-sue-energy-department-over?v=1453833718
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley on Tuesday moved forward with her threat to sue the U.S. Department of Energy for the agency’s failure to meet a Jan. 1 nuclear fuel deadline, asking South Carolina’s top prosecutor to pursue litigation and collection of $1 million daily fines.
“The federal government has, once again, failed to keep its promise to the people of our state,” Haley wrote to Attorney General Alan Wilson in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. “South Carolina will not sit idly by while DOE continues – in violation of federal law – to ignore its commitment to the people of South Carolina.”
Savannah River Site’s mixed-oxide project – known as MOX – is intended to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel. It is years behind schedule and billions over its original budget.
Officials with the Department of Energy did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2016-01-26/gov-nikki-haley-asks-state-attorney-general-sue-energy-department-over?v=1453833718