AIKEN (AP) -- Federal regulators say officials building a facility to make nuclear reactor fuel from plutonium waste at a former nuclear bomb plant in South Carolina need to work harder to drum up customers.
The General Accountability Office said Friday that the mixed oxide fuel facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken is on schedule to open in 2016.
But GAO says the National Nuclear Security Administration needs to do better outreach to utilities who could become customers for the fuel made from weapons-grade plutonium.
No utilities are signed on to buy MOX. Officials are talking to Tennessee Valley Authority. Last year, Duke Energy decided to let its contract to buy MOX expire.
A spokeswoman for the MOX project did not immediately return a message Friday.
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