Why haven’t fiscal conservatives rallied earlier to kill this chronic abuse of taxpayers?
in “Nuke Agency Needs Budget Accountability —
Just like the Pentagon, the agency responsible for our nuclear weapons complex should have to justify additional funding after large cost overruns.”
by Project on Government Oversight, May 1, 2018
“By far the most egregious example of NNSA’s failure to control its major construction projects is the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX). A project that’s been in the works for almost twenty years, Congress approved an initial proposed construction budget of $1.4 billion in 2000. It began with the germ of a good idea—disposing of weapons grade plutonium by turning it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors as part of a non-proliferation deal with Russia—but the project quickly went off the rails.”