The DOE's dirty laundry: is a technologically unqualified DOE sabotaging its own nuclear cleanup efforts?
Washington Monthly › Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, March 1997
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The DOE's cleanup up of 50 years of environmental mismanagement by the nuclear industry will take about 75 years and $230 bil. Some of the mistakes and their far-reaching effects since the 1940s are discussed. Evidence of why the Energy Dept's staff is deemed technical incompetence, is recounted.
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The DOE's dirty laundry: is a technologically unqualified DOE sabotaging its own nuclear cleanup efforts?
Remember the savings and loan bailout? You know, the banking fiasco with the $90 billion price tag? Well, that'll look like chump change next to the government's next big repair job: reversing 50 years of environmental ruin in the nation's nuclear weapons complex. Cleaning it up is expected to take at least 75 years and $230 billion--more than twice what the S&L debacle has cost so far.
It's not a pretty picture. Radioactive waste oozes from crumbling, million-gallon tanks--some in danger of exploding--at two dormant federal reactors, Hanford in Washington state and Savannah River in South Carolina. At Fernald, a derelict nuke plant near...See the full content of this document
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