Nuclear dump price tag soars
From Times Wire Reports
It will cost more than $90 billion to open and operate the nation’s first nuclear waste dump -- $32 billion more than thought, according to the Bush administration’s latest calculation. In 2001, the estimate was $58 billion.
Ward Sproat, the Energy Department official in charge of managing the Yucca Mountain project, disclosed the new number after a congressional hearing in Washington.
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