The Energy Department Monday released a draft strategy to accelerate cleanup and closure of 353 nuclear weapons production facilities.
Critics were quick to criticize the strategy, which builds on the DOE's so-called 10-year plan, charging that it fails to reflect the true cleanup costs, including money needed to clean up weapons production facilities that are still active.
In addition, despite the DOE's insistence that the plan is not a "decisional document," environmentalists have attacked the report as constituting a complex-wide environmental impact statement that circumvents the National Environmental Policy Act.
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