Nuclear waste
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:137738
This paper presents a report on DOE`s implementation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 discusses changes in waste program contracting patterns that have occurred since December 1987. The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 significantly altered DOE`s waste program by ending work investigating two sites for a first repository; focusing first repository activities on the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site; and postponing work on a second repository. GAO`s analysis shows that the total number of nuclear waste program contracts decreased by 123 after the amendments were passed, including 113 contracts related to non-Yucca Mountain project work. Spending patterns for nuclear water program contracts have also changed since 1987, with contracts for the Yucca Mountain Project now accounting for a greater percentage of total contract costs. This report also discusses the status of the legal challenge to DOE`s selection of Bechtel Systems Management, Inc. as the waste program`s management and operating contractor and recent concerns raised about DOE`s management of such contracts.
- Research Organization:
- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (United States). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
- OSTI ID:
- 137738
- Report Number(s):
- GAO/RCED--90-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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