Re: Failure in Nuclear Waste Disposal

["Robert Gunter" <rjgunter@icnpharm.com>]

Forgive the excerpt.  It thought it would be interesting to switch these two
paragraphs from the previous post to see how they would then read.  Lets see, we
have a method that actually works, but may have some problems to overcome
(benzene) and the contractor was attempting to get it to work.
****

2nd part first:

        ``Mismanagement (of the program) ... led to an extraordinary and
 pathetic waste of taxpayer money,'' said Rep. John Dingell,
 D-Mich., who had ordered the GAO report. ``All we have to show for
 $500 million is a 20-year delay and the opportunity to risk another
 $1 billion to make a problematic process work.''

1st part second:

        A study released Wednesday by the General Accounting Office, the
 investigative arm of Congress, said the search for a substitute
 method for separating the liquid could take eight to 10 years and
 cost from $1 billion to as much as $3.5 billion.


Sounds like the government _was_ getting off cheap!!!  Can't have any of that!!!

Rob
Gunter01@hotmail.com


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