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from the so-where-does-the-waste-goin-in-the-mean-time? dept.
After a truck fire and a leaking drum of radioactive waste shut down the nation's only underground nuclear waste facility near Carlsbad in February 2014, the Department of Energy said that by March 2016, it could cleanup and safely reopen the critical site.
The agency knew it had only a 1 percent chance of meeting that deadline, according to an audit released this week by the Government Accountability Office, an investigating arm of Congress.
In 2015, the agency admitted it couldn't safely reopen the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, even for limited operations, until at least December 2016 — and at a higher cost. Now auditors say even the revised cost estimate was flawed. The agency "did not follow all best practices for cost and schedule estimates," federal auditors found, including having an independent analyst review them.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 08 2016, @03:28PM
So, they lied on an official report?
Yeah, I know that with the way things are, they would be punished harsher if they admitted up front they could not make the deadline than if they simply missed it. The whole system is fucked.
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