“With scarce funds in hand, the DOE decided to fund a related project, a multibillion-dollar Uranium Processing Facility in Tennessee. But oops! Officials recently had to acknowledge they have to redesign the building because it wouldn’t be big enough to hold the equipment that was supposed to go inside it.”
From a great editorial in the Albuquerque Journal detailing a long list of waste and inefficiencies in the management of U.S. nuclear weapons complexes. Make sure to go read the full editorial to get an idea of just how many problems there are.
The Fort Knox for uranium? Too bad the security force is having a hard time explaining how an 82-year-old nun and two peace activists broke in.
The Explosive Costs of CMRR-NF, Los Alamos’ Billion Dollar Nuke Facility
The cost of an Energy Dept. facility in Los Alamos is out of control. The plan is to build a facility we don’t need with billions of taxpayer dollars. Get involved and join POGO in calling for the building to be canceled.
Do you like buying things you don’t need?
Well the Department of Energy is trying to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a nuclear facility the U.S. doesn’t need. Learn why this project isn’t worth the money with POGO’s latest infographic. If you are as upset as we are, get involved by telling President Obama to cancel the funding for this project.
“There is no official number that tells American citizens how much our government is spending on nuclear weapons. In fact, we are not even precisely sure how many nuclear weapons we have.”
The Ploughshares Fund, defending their assertion that the government will spend $700 billion over the next 10 years on its nuclear weapons arsenal. Read more on the POGO blog about the secretive spending on nuclear weapons.
