Nuclear watchdogs toured a planned SC plutonium plant. Here’s what they saw.

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: April 22, 2026

Words: 1,018

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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COLUMBIA — Nuclear watchdogs received a rare tour of a partially built plutonium recycling facility at South Carolina’s federal nuclear site this week.

Speaking at the Statehouse Wednesday following their visit the day before, anti-nuclear and environmental groups claimed efforts to repurpose a mothballed nuclear fuel plant on the site into a facility to replace the plutonium cores of bombs, known as pits, in the country’s nuclear arsenal amount to a drain on taxpayer dollars.

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