DOE sets a course to speed cleanup of its weapon sites
Thomas P. Grumbly, the US Department of Energy's new environmental and waste czar, is on a mission to prove that it can actually correct a half-century of neglect. But he made it clear to attendees at a cleanup conference in Amelia Island, Florida, late last month that agency weapon-site managers and contractors will shoulder more of the responsibility. DOE headquarters already is shifting specific cleanup decisions to field offices, Grumbly told 400 cleanup firm executives at the annual Decisionmaker's Forum, sponsored by Weapons Complex Monitor, a publication that follows nuclear waste cleanup. To support the change, 1,000 employees will be added over the next three years to provide field offices with more cleanup expertise.
- OSTI ID:
- 7110499
- Journal Information:
- Engineering News-Record; (United States), Journal Name: Engineering News-Record; (United States) Vol. 231:15; ISSN 0013-807X; ISSN ENREAU
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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