IG: MOX Project ‘Largely Unsuccessful’ in Controlling Cost and Schedule

摘要

The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project has been "largely unsuccessful" in controlling project cost andrnschedule, according to a DOE Inspector General’s Office report released this week that includes severalrnrecommendations for a path forward. Rising costs prompted DOE earlier this year to announce plans to put thernproject into "cold standby" while it assesses alternatives for plutonium disposition. The cost and schedule wasrn"significantly underestimated" due to numerous factors, the IG report states. "This included, most prominently, thernDepartment’s 2007 approval of a project baseline that was developed from an immature design, understating thernlevel of effort to install various construction commodity items, and high personnel turnover rates," the reportrnstates.