Former New Mexico governor: Halting plutonium cleanup 'very bad idea'
August 27, 2015 at 15:53 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers should work with the Department of Energy to restructure a project to convert excess U.S. weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors instead of abandoning it, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said.
