2006 WASHINGTON STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM
Yakima, WA– - May 26, 2006
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• • Support resumption of safe nuclear power plant construction.
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Oh yeah! Incredibly expensive, incredibly dangerous nukular energy... With uncontained, continuously spreading, deadly by-products that last
forever.
DOE demands contractor return money for Hanford plant
By Shannon Dininny
The Associated Press
YAKIMA - The U.S. Department of Energy has notified the contractor hired to build a waste treatment plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation that it must return $48 million it was paid on the project, which has been mired in cost overruns and delays.
The so-called vitrification plant will convert highly radioactive waste into glasslike logs for permanent disposal in a nuclear waste repository. The plant has long been considered the cornerstone of cleanup at the highly contaminated Hanford site.
Under its contract with the federal government, contractor Bechtel National could earn up to $200 million for meeting the plant's $5.4 billion budget. That money is to be paid out as a so-called cost-performance fee over the course of the project.
So far, the company has earned $48 million. The Energy Department notified company officials by letter Wednesday that they wanted the money returned, saying it was now clear that Bechtel will not qualify for any cost-performance fee.
The lesser "appropriate fee for this performance incentive is zero," the letter said. The company has 45 days to respond. ...
... The current cost estimate for the project is more than $10 billion.
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