The cost to the US Army Corps of Engineers of cleaning up nuclear contamination caused by the federal government during World War II has increased by $1 billion since 2016, according to a watchdog report.
The Government Accountability Office estimated the environmental liability of the Corps’ program for investigating and cleaning up 19 active radioactive sites in the Northeast and Midwest has ballooned by 63% over the past seven years. Annual inflation and shifting cleanup cost assessments contributed to the liability increase—estimated in fiscal 2022 at a total of $2.6 billion—under the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.
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