It’s Official: AREVA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Refuse to Release MOX Program Life-Cycle Cost Estimates – Lack of Response Confirms that they have No Validated Cost Estimates!
There has been no response by AREVA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services to the most recent SRS Watch letters requesting release of the MOX boondoggle validated life-cycle cost. Likewise, there has been no response to similar letters sent well over a year ago. Additonally, in response to the DOE’s Aerospace report on the cost of MOX – $51 billion to $114 billion – there has been no release of the companies1 validated cost estimate.
CONCLUSION: Neither AREVA not CB&I AREVA MOX Servcies has any validated cost estimates for the MOX project. Nonetheless, the companies continue to push for additional funding of the misguided MOX project even though no cost estimates exist. Lack of release of such a validated estimate means that anything the companies say about MOX costs or schedules is unsubstantiated and can’t be believed. Ditto for MOX-booster politicians who refuse to release their own costs estimates.
This is the situation that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) repeatedly warns about and thus the project rightly remains on the GAO’s list of projects “at high risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.” When will Congress investigate, hold hearings and demand accountability of the mismanagers of this run-away project?
SRS Watch Letters of April 27 to AREVA linked here and here
SRS watch letter of April 28 to David Del Vecchio, president, CB&I AREVA MOX Services linked here
GAO February 2014 plutonium disposition report linked here.