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So they have spent these billions and achieved essentially nothing. Pretreatment and high level waste vitrification are "deferred". The most dangerous parts of the job, which are required to even start work are deferred. How is this contractor still in business?

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You could ask the same question about many government contractors. I would dispute calling what they've done "nothing," though. Building a facility of that size and complexity is obviously a non-trivial task, especially when they're having to solve multiple large-scale problems that have never been solved before.

Taking 25 years to.build this facility is milking it on an almost astronomical scale. There is no incentive to get anywhere, which is apparently why executives there are being charged criminally. Hand waving about "many government contractors" is bull. This is a shitshow. I love the Columbia River Valley.

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