MOX Boondoggle Boosters Suffer Blow in U.S. House Armed Services Committee Over “Zombie” MOX Project —
Defense Authorization Act Amendment Cuts MOX Budget “Plus Up” of $120 Million
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) stated at the meeting: “Surely, 200 million dollars is enough for our friends in South Carolina for a dead project. Because this isn’t just an earmark, this is a zombie earmark. This is a dead project.” *
Government Accountability Office report, February 2014, PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION PROGRAM – DOE Needs to Analyze the Root Causes of Cost Increases and Develop Better Cost Estimates: “NNSA has not analyzed the underlying, or root, causes of the Plutonium Disposition program construction cost increases to help identify lessons learned and help address the agency’s difficulty in completing projects within cost and schedule, which has led to NNSA’s management of major projects remaining on GAO’s list of areas at high risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.“**