UPF RED TEAM REPORT CRITICIZED BY OAK RIDGE PEACE GROUP

The Red Team report on alternatives to the Uranium Processing Facility has failed to sway one longtime critic of the massive facility. The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance ripped the Red Team’s recommendations, which focused on moving operations from Y-12’s 9212 complex into a scaled down version of UPF and several other facilities and revamping management of the project, suggesting they were not likely to have a major impact in fixing the floundering project. “That the Red Team proposal can be successfully implemented by NNSA’s current management personnel defies credibility,” OREPA said late last week. “While the recognition that some significant management adjustment has to be made is on point, the solution proposed by the Red team fails to take into account the depth of the deficiencies running through NNSA. Management failure is cultural condition of the NNSA; it cannot be fixed by creating new positions or re-delegating authority. Attempting to do so will inevitably lead to more fiascos like the space-fit issue. With billions of taxpayer dollars at stake, this is too big a risk to take.”