All Systems Go with MOX Fuel at Catawba

From the Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.):

Reactor 1 at the Catawba Nuclear Station has been fired up and running with fuel containing weapons-grade plutonium for more than a week, and everything is going according to plan, a company official said.

The reactor was loaded with mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel on June 5 and is now running at 100 percent, said Steve Nesbitt, an engineer with Duke Power, at a meeting last week with the Rock Hill Sierra Club chapter.

"So far, we have seen that the fuel is behaving exactly as expected," Nesbitt said.

In May, one of my colleagues, Kevin McCoy, wrote about the MOX Project, calling it another non-proliferation success story.

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