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Daily Mail: Cost to dismantle USS Enterprise set to top $1 BILLION if Congress doesn't take action, warns watchdog agency
* GAO issued a report on Thursday warning of costs to dismantle USS Enterprise
* Enterprise was Navy's first nuclear aircraft carrier and cost $3.93 billion to build
* Ship was commissioned in 1961 and decommissioned last year for dismantling
* Conflicting nuclear regulators could drive price to scrap up without oversight
The cost to dismantle the USS Enterprise will top $1 billion without Congressional action on the matter, a new report warns.
The Government Accountability Office issued the report on Thursday, saying Congressional oversight is needed to resolve conflicting nuclear regulatory jurisdiction in the matter.
The Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Enterprise was commissioned in 1961, and built at a cost of $3.9 billion, in current dollars.
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WNU Editor: $1 billion !?!?!?!?!
No, just no.
ReplyDeleteIt is called corruption and no oversight if it costs a billion to scrap one carrier.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame! I saw this at the Newport Shipyard a few months ago, some parts already off and starting to rust. I stood there in awe!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, $1Billion seems ridiculous since they can salvage the metal.
" Stephen Davenport said...
ReplyDeleteIt is called corruption and no oversight if it costs a billion to scrap one carrier.
August 7, 2018 at 5:26 PM "
It's called " Environmental Wackos wrote the current nuclear reactor dismantlement and disposal rules."
The nut jobs openly stated long ago that the atomic laws would be so voluminous and tightly written, that nuclear power would not be cost effective. They succeeded. The average civilian nuke plant in the US is +36yo.
Only the USN uses nuke power in large numbers.
The USN wants clarity so that all of the conflicting regulations from various "concerned agencies" is harmonized.
Otherwise, it's going to be a goat screw.
Wtf the world is laughing at this. 1 billion dollar to get rid of basically a massive amount of scrap metal you could sell on ebay. Ffs just take it to some old nuclear testing site in the Pacific and drop a small one on it. Send video to Kim Jong Un. Total cost probably even net positive as one less nuke has to be taken care of in our stock pile of thousands of nukes
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