The article below deserves to stand alone, worth reading in its entirety.
US poverty is NUMBER 1 in the world, Food Stamp Programs are slashed, Republicans campaign for SMALL GOVERNMENT, yet create this PORK.
.... proponents of keeping the plant include some of the Republican Party’s most determined opponents of government spending, like Representative Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican whose district includes Aiken.
Two companies involved with the plant’s construction are among Mr. Wilson’s biggest contributors, according to campaign records. Chicago Bridge and Iron, one of the two companies that own the main contractor for the facility, gave $10,000 to Mr. Wilson’s 2014 re-election campaign, and the other owner, Areva Group, donated $8,000, according to campaign records.
The Department of Energy wants to abandon the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility near
Aiken, South Carolina. (photo: High Flyer/SRS Watch)
Reader Supported News | 10 March 16 PM
James Risen | Half-Built Nuclear Fuel Plant in South Carolina Faces Test on Its Future
James Risen, The New York Times
Risen writes: "Time may finally be running out on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, a multibillion-dollar, over-budget federal project that has been hard to kill."
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The Energy Department has already spent about $4.5 billion on the half-built plant near Aiken, S.C., designed to make commercial reactor fuel out of plutonium from nuclear bombs. New estimates place the ultimate cost of the facility at between $9.4 billion and $21 billion, and the outlay for the overall program, including related costs, could go as high as $30 billion.
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