Bloody hell, I wouldn't mind one bit if GLE got some of this clean up work in the future?
https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/11/f46/DOE-OIG-18-09.pdf
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Energy
SPECIAL REPORT
DOE-OIG-18-09 November 2017
Environmental Cleanup
The Department is responsible for addressing the nation’s Cold War environmental legacy resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.
The cleanup operation is the largest in the world and includes 107 sites across the country encompassing an area equal to the combined size of Rhode Island and Delaware. Fifty years of activities has produced unique and technically complex problems. Specifically, this legacy includes some of the world’s most dangerous sites with large amounts of radioactive wastes, spent
nuclear fuel, excess plutonium and uranium, thousands of contaminated facilities, and contaminated soil and groundwater.
Since 1989, the Department has spent over
$164 billion to retrieve, treat, and dispose of nuclear and hazardous waste and has completed cleanup at 91 of the 107 sites.
In the last 6 years alone, the Department has spent $35 billion, primarily to treat and dispose of nuclear and hazardous waste and construct capital asset projects to treat waste. Cleanup activities can last for decades and often require first-of-a-kind solutions. Characterization of legacy waste sites is performed in conjunction with planning and executing cleanup activities, such as deactivating and decommissioning facilities, removing hazardous materials, stabilizing waste streams to prevent additional environmental damage, and restoring the sites to conditions required by legal agreements.
Despite billions spent on environmental cleanup, the Department’s environmental liability has roughly doubled from a low of $176 billion in FY 1997 to the FY 2016 estimate of $372 billion.
The Department is responsible for 83%, of the Federal government’s $447 billion FY 2016 reported environmental liability which is mostly related to nuclear waste cleanup. Half of the Department’s environmental liability resides at the Hanford Site in Washington State and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
See page 16 of this PDF below, big money in nuclear clean up is available it would seem?
DOE-OIG-18-09.pdf
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