Two CPS Energy workers placed on administrative leave over nuclear plan scandal

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Source: WOAI-TV/AP

Two CPS Energy workers are on administrative leave over a recently disclosed jump in the projected cost for two more units at the South Texas Project.

The CPS Energy board has launched an investigation into how and when management because aware of the higher estimate.

Interim CPS Energy general manager Steve Barley, in a statement Tuesday, said an estimate that exceeds the preliminary total project cost of $13 billion is not acceptable.

The statement cited recent news reports about a $4 billion increase.

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WOAI-TV video clip: http://www.woai.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=[e-mail]&navCatId=5
You can't trust the nuclear industry.

[Pavulon]

1. The only industry to fuck up a project plan..

unlike every major civil works project in , well history.

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2. Since elctricity rates have done nothing but go up year after year in Texas

maybe now is not the time to be doing this. Rick Perry doesn't even want stimulus funds.