[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Savannah River Site [SC] clean up pushed to 2065, costing extra $25 billion"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Savannah River Site clean up pushed to 2065, costing extra $25 billion

By Meg Mirshak
Augusta Chronicle
January 27, 2015

Cleanup of Savannah River Site’s Cold War nuclear waste has been  
pushed back to fiscal year 2065, requiring an additional $25 billion  
and more than two extra decades of work, according to latest  
projections from the U.S. Department of Energy.

New estimates add 23 years to the environmental management program at  
SRS, and the life cycle cost estimate has risen to between $91  
billion and $109 billion, according to DOE.

Information on the delay was presented to the SRS Citizens Advisory  
Board this week. Board members said announcements of delays and cost  
overruns have become expected as the federal government faces  
tightening budgets.


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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2015-01-27/savannah-river- 
site-clean-pushed-2065-costing-extra-25-billion

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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