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THE DOE CLEANUP MISSION
THE DOE CLEANUP MISSION
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These weapons production efforts have left the nation with contaminated soil, surface water, and ground water, as well as large volumes of radioactive and chemical wastes, that are a hazard to human health and the environment. The DOE is the agency responsible for managing the nuclear weapons complex, including more than 120 million square feet of buildings and facilities and 2.3 million acres of land that were used for the research, production, and testing of nuclear weapons (DOE, 1995c)
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Based on the use of existing technologies and cleanup approaches, DOE's current estimate of cleanup costs is $200 billion to $350 billion, with a midrange estimate of $230 billion, over 75 years (DOE, 1995b) .4 Of this total, DOE estimates that $l 12 billion wait be spent for waste management, $65 billion for environmental restoration, $22 billion for nuclear material and facility stabilization, $12 billion for technology development, and the remainder for activities such as program management and planning and annual monitoring (DOE, 1995b)
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