An article in the Feb. 12 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor, “Hanford Liquid Cleanup OK in Budget, but Big Cuts for Other Areas Proposed,” should have said:
The total cost of the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, including Bechtel’s $11.4 billion prime contract to build the facility, is $12.3 billion.
The White House for 2017 requested $666 million for activities supporting the Low-Activity Waste facility that will turn low-level, liquid nuclear waste into solid radioactive glass, including $593 million for Bechtel National’s work on the facility itself, and $73 million for a pretreatment facility for the plant, which Washington River Protection Solutions is building under a separate contract.
Bechtel formally proposed in 2014 to modify the Waste Treatment Plant’s design to support the Low-Activity Waste facility. The Waste Treatment Plant was not originally designed to begin low-level waste processing prior to high-level waste processing.