Contractor dumped new equipment to get bonus - By TODD HARTMAN, Capitol Hill Blue
Allegations that enormous stores of new equipment were thrown away in the haste to close the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant and earn the contractor early cleanup bonuses have been lodged by several workers.
The complaints, now under review by the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General, involve assertions by former workers at the now-demolished plant that supervisors with cleanup contractor Kaiser-Hill found it easier to throw away the materials, many of which were still in boxes or wrapped in plastic, than to find new homes for them.