Why are DOE/NNSA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Failing to Answer Basic Questions about the Mismanaged Project’s Viability at the Time the DOE Budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is Supposedly Set to be Released (on May 22 or 23…)?
Smells like a Cover-up Paid for with Massive Amounts of Our Money, Doesn’t it?
SRS Watch has posed important questions that remain unanswered and continues to call for officials in NNSA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services, the contractor struggling to design and build the MOX plant, to at last be held accountable for its mismanagement of the project. Questions needing answers include the ones below. If you have more questions or answers to these, please send them to srswatch@gmail.com.
1) Will a “fixed-cost” or a “fixed-cost plus fee” or other type of new contract be presented to CB&I AREVA MOX Services by NNSA, as required in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2017 (page 1935)?
2) Will a cost cap be imposed on the MOX plant construction?
3) Will a firm, guaranteed schedule for construction milestones and facility completion date be agreed by CB&I AREVA MOX Services and NNSA?
4) It the project continues, will MOX Services guarantee its ability to start the facility in a fixed amount of time and on a fixed budget?
5) Will there be full accountability of MOX Services and its contractors – including the now-departed HVAC contractor Superior Air Handing (rumored to have badly bungled the HVAC work) – for construction issues, accounting of funds and poor management of the project?
6) Will MOX Services promptly provide a full list of “rework” problems, including costs to repair, who will be charged, who will be held responsible and a fixed schedule for fixing the rework (or “reinstallation”) problems?
7) When will a schedule for guaranteed final design of the facility be provided? Due to chronic design and construction problems, can the MOX plant ever be made operable?
8) Will MOX Services and NNSA fully cooperate with NNSA in publicizing data about the MOX project, including percent complete and construction milestones?
9) Will NNSA and MOX Services agree to finally engage with stakeholders, including public interest organizations, about the status of the project and no longer hide in the shadows and away from public scrutiny?
10) Will there be full cooperation by NNSA and MOX services into investigations into fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement and corruption by investigative agencies and the federal courts?
The questions above are from SRS Watch news release of May 11, 2017, on failure of NNSA to prepare the annual, legally mandated report on the MOX project – news release linked here