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Are Real NNSA and Contractor Safety Culture Changes Occurring?

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By scooby


"WIPP waste accident a 'horrific comedy of errors'"

"A DOE official quoted by Trento said a root problem is "the fact that DOE has no real operational control over the NNSA. Under the guise of national security, NNSA runs the contractors, covers up accidents and massive cost overruns and can fire any DOE employee who tries to point out a problem. Because they control so many jobs and contractors, every administration refuses to take them on."..."The contractor game at NNSA is played this way: Major corporations form LLC's [limited liability companies] and bid for NNSA and DOE contracts. For example, at SRS [Savannah River Site] they bid to clean up waste and get some of the billions of dollars from Obama's first term stimulus money. Things go wrong, little gets cleaned up, workers get injured or exposed to radiation and outraged NNSA management cancels the contract. A new LLC is formed by the same NNSA list of corporate partners and they are asked to bid on a new management contract. The new LLC hires the same workers as the old management company and the process gets repeated again and again."

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/794/wipp-waste-accident-horrific-comed-errors

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Anonymous said…

https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/794/wipp-waste-accident-horrific-comedy-errors
9/14/2019 8:15 PM
Anonymous said…

Once again the culture of cowboys. Only one group is to blame.
9/15/2019 6:43 AM
Anonymous said…
6:43 get a life. You really need to move out of your mother’s basement if you expect to be taken seriously by adults.
9/15/2019 12:31 PM
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