Once again, we can see the DOE philosophy at work - SRS as a big entitlement program for special interests. Choose the most expensive option for disposing of plutonium (plutonium fuel, or MOX), maximize cost of that facility and proceed to build adjunct facilities (like the Waste Solidification Building) which also cost a lot of money. The cheapest option to deal with the plutonium is to vitrify it as waste, not build all these costly processing facilities. But those who feed off big government programs which benefit the few at the expense of the rest of us rammed all this through Congress. Let's hope that with a new administration that DOE won't continue to be treated as a feeding trough for redistribution of our hard-earned tax money. Fiscal conservatism in the Aiken/Augusta area has for now lost out to the socialist crowd but one day this will change.
