The $4.8 billion mixed oxide, or MOX, facility is designed to help get rid of tons of weapons grade plutonium at SRS left over from the Cold War.

The plant will use the radioactive material to make fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.

In its report the NRC credited construction contractor MOX Services for running a safe operation.

But the inspection did turn up 3 minor procedural violations including failure to check poured concrete for trash.

Jim Giusti is a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy, which owns SRS:

"Those are really the least serious on the NRC scale and not really anything that will impact safe operation of the facility when it comes online."

Giusti says the violations have since been corrected.

The MOX plant is scheduled to go online in 2016.