Energy Department Requests $6 Billion To Clean Up Radioactive Waste Sites

摘要

More than half the total $11.2 billion proposed for the Energy Department fiscal year 2011 budget would go to clean up "legacy" high-level radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a budget briefing Feb. 1. Some $6 billion would go to the Environmental Management program, which cleans up high-level radioactive waste at 39 sites in 14 states, according to the proposal. The program, which is the Department of Energy's largest, calls itself the "largest and most complex environmental cleanup project in the world."