Reply #5: "...and various private contractors." That's the most serious part of the colossal scam of

[Peace Patriot]

nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.

"Internal documents from the Department of Energy and various private contractors working at Hanford reveal that at least one million gallons of radioactive sludge have already leaked out of at least sixty-seven different tanks."
http://counterpunch.org/stclair10172008.html

Billions and billions and BILLIONS of dollars poured into the pockets of private corps, who profit from the weapons, the energy plants AND the Forever Cleanups--so hauntingly like the Forever War--in a Mobius Strip of corruption and grand theft of taxpayer money. Here, in North Korea, soon in India, and other places, private companies--global corporate predators all--who use the billions we stuff into their pockets to turn around and lobby our government and propagandize our people, profit all around the twisting circle, from design, to fuckup, to studies and reports, to cleanup, back to design, accumulating vast wealth and power over us in this perpetual profiteering on the worst idea the human race has ever conceived.

Hanford is a prime example. Its private contractors, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, General Electric and UNC Nuclear Industries, have been sued by local citizens downwind of released plutonium, who have developed thyroid cancer, and "U.S. taxpayers are paying the legal bills to defend the Hanford contractors in an agreement that dates back to the Manhattan Project, the secret government program to develop an atomic bomb during World War II."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004330605_downwinders06.html

Then...

New contractors take over Hanford cleanup projects
By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer

Hanford's two newest major contractors officially took over work Wednesday, equipped with plans they believe will make cleanup of the nuclear reservation safer and more efficient.

Washington River Protection Solutions, under a $7.1 billion contract for up to 10 years, has hired 1,105 employees to manage and operate Hanford's tank farms and prepare for operations of the vitrification plant. Almost all of the tank farm workers for outgoing contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group who applied for jobs with the new contractor were hired.

And CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co., under a $4.5 billion contract for up to a decade, has hired 1,950 employees to clean up much of central Hanford, to clean up contaminated soil and ground water and to take over work at the K East and K West Reactors.

Any employees the plateau remediation contractor did not hire from Fluor Hanford will remain with Fluor as it continues to provide sitewide services until a new mission support contractor is in place. Fluor Hanford has about 1,700 employees remaining but is accepting applications for the second phase of voluntary layoffs.

The two new contractors will be ramping up work in the coming months, but they and DOE officials were ready to start talking about their plans Wednesday after meetings with Hanford employees.

Washington River Protection Solutions brings a breadth of experience from across the DOE complex in managing and successfully retrieving radioactive liquid waste, said Shirley Olinger, manager of the DOE Hanford Office of River Protection. The team has done similar work at sites in South Carolina, Idaho and West Valley, N.Y.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/337361.html

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Halliburton Subsidiary to Build North Korea's First Light-Water Reactor
Posted by admin on 2005/9/21 18:02:00 (6394 reads)

By Ion Zwitter, Avant News Editor
Pyongyang, North Korea, November 5, 2006

A jubilant U.S. State Department announced today that the Halliburton subsidiary of Buhn & Dogale, a small ceramic figurine manufacturing firm located in the Cayman Islands, has been granted a coveted $3.2 billion no-bid contract to construct North Korea's first light-water nuclear reactor. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said key officials associated with the contract award, an important component of the recently signed North Korean 'Now You See Them Now You Don't' Strategic Nuclear Arms Limitation Treaty, were 'elated'."

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=106

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