GE to Quit Nuclear Trigger Plant: General...
From Times Staff and Wire reports
GE to Quit Nuclear Trigger Plant: General Electric Co. confirmed that it plans to give up its $6.9-million-a-year management contract at a Florida plant that makes triggers for nuclear weapons. GE said it found unacceptable Department of Energy changes in an agreement that call for contractors that run government plants to assume responsibility for environmental liability at the facilities. In the past, the government has borne such responsibilities. The DOE, which oversees the contract at the Pinellas plant in Largo, said the estimated 1,600 employees at the plant likely will continue to work there for the new operator. GE will quit the facility by May 31, 1992.
