Challenges mounting for Energy’s nuclear waste clean-ups

The Government Accountability Office notes the estimate went up by $100 billion just this year.

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The deeper the Energy Department gets into cleaning up Cold War-era nuclear waste dumps, the more difficult and expensive the task seems to grow. The Government Accountability Office noted the estimate went up by $100 billion just this year. David Trimble, director of Natural Resources and Environment Issues at GAO, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for recommendations for DOE to keep moving.

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