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Nuclear waste : action needed to improve accountability and management of DOE's major cleanup projects : report to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives / [GAO contact, Gene Aloise].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Aloise, Gene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Energy--Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Energy.
- Expenditures, Public.
- Radioactive waste disposal--United States--Costs.
- Radioactive waste disposal.
- Radioactive waste sites--United States--Costs.
- Radioactive waste sites.
- Hazardous waste site remediation--United States--Costs.
- Hazardous waste site remediation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 55 pages, digital, PDF file)
- Other Title:
- Action needed to improve accountability and management of DOE's major cleanup projects
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2008]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Department of Energy (DOE) spends billions of dollars annually to clean up nuclear wastes at sites that produced nuclear weapons. Cleanup projects decontaminate and demolish buildings, remove and dispose of contaminated soil, treat contaminated groundwater, and stabilize and dispose of solid and liquid radioactive wastes. Ten of these projects meet or nearly meet DOE's definition of major: costs exceeding $1 billion in the near term--usually a 5-year window of the project's total estimated life cycle. GAO was asked to determine the (1) extent to which the cost and schedule for DOE's major cleanup projects have changed and key reasons for changes, and (2) factors that may hinder DOE's ability to effectively manage these projects. GAO met with project directors and reviewed project documents for 10 major cleanup projects: 9 above the near-term $1 billion threshold, and 1 estimated to cost between $900 million and $1 billion over the near term.
- Notes:
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. [Bethesda, Md.] : ProQuest, 2004. digital, PDF file. ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Mode of access: World Wide Web via ProQuest website.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nuclear waste
- Microfiche version: Nuclear waste. CIS 2008 J942-510
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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