COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina dropped a lawsuit Friday aimed at saving a nuclear reactor fuel project at the Savannah River Site after the Obama administration agreed to keep funding the plant through the current fiscal year.
The state sued the U.S. Energy Department earlier this year, seeking to keep the government from defunding a multi-billion dollar project near Aiken to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial reactor fuel. The project’s price tag has ballooned over the years to nearly $8 billion, and the Obama administration said earlier this year it intended to mothball the entire effort.
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