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MFFF
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Noun
en mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility.
en Major Savings and Reforms BUDGET OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT Fiscal Year 2018 https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/msar.pdf 2017 36 w:whitehouse.gov https://web.archive.org/web/20170601204940/https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/msar.pdf 2017-06-01 The United States began construction of the MFFF in 2007 in accord with the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) between the United States and Russia. However, due to the project's 350-percent cost growth and a 32-year schedule slip, both the Department of Energy and external independent analyses have consistently concluded that the MOX approach to plutonium disposition is significantly costlier and would require a much higher annual budget than an alternate disposition method, Dilute and Dispose (D&D).