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Department of Energy: Cost Estimates for the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation Project

RCED-99-188R Published: May 19, 1999. Publicly Released: May 19, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the differences between GAO's 1998 report on the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Tank Waste Remediation project and a 1998 report on the same project prepared by the Pacific Rim Enterprise Center, focusing on why the two reports reached substantially different conclusions about the growth in costs for the tank waste project.

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Comparative analysisCost analysisCost overrunsEvaluation methodsFixed price contractsHazardous substancesNuclear waste managementNuclear waste storagePrivatizationRadioactive waste disposal