Her son has been attending second-grade classes at a facility in nearby Monroe, Conn.

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The MOX facility will blend surplus weapon-grade plutonium with depleted uranium oxide to make mixed oxide fuel for use in existing nuclear power plants.

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It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.

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