Alexander: UPF construction on time, under budget

[Duppers]

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/06/14/sen-alexander-discusses-y-12-facility-nnsa-hearing/397854001/


Reminds me of this great LTE in Knoxville News Sentinel:

Billions wasted on Uranium Processing Facility

Letters to the Editor
Jan. 30, 2017

Three billion tax dollars have been spent on an architectural plan for a new nuclear bomb plant, which politicians call the Uranium Processing Facility, at Y-12 in Oak Ridge. This is a plan no one has seen or been held accountable for. The U.S. is the first country to develop nuclear weapons and the only country to have used them in war. We spend more on our nuclear arsenal than all other countries combined. Are we so afraid as individuals and a country that we are willing to allow our tax dollars to be drained away in this manner at the expense of our children's education, our infrastructure and our health care systems?

The UPF project has been deeply flawed from the start. In 2012 the Government Accounting Office singled out the UPF as a poster child for the National Nuclear Safety Administration's management deficiencies. The NNSA said in 2011 it can fulfill its stockpile surveillance and maintenance mission at Y-12 with a production capacity of 10 warheads per year. The UPF is being designed with a capacity of 80 warheads per year. The Oak Ridge Environmental and Peace Alliance calculates the cost of the bomb plants is $15 billion, and the NNSA is proceeding without a projected final cost or a required independent cost estimate. U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander is the chair of the committee for this endeavor. You might want to let him know what you think.

Marcia Free, Knoxville

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/01/30/letter-billions-wasted-uranium-processing-facility/97153534/


Bringing money to Tennessee any dirty way they can.

[freedomrock1970]

1. If only the money actually made it here.