Privatizing the nuclear industry

TomDispatch has an eye-opening article by Frida Berrigan concerning the privatization of the nuclear industry by the Bush administration.

We have seen thet accomplishments of this tactic in Iraq with Halliburton. Do we really want cronies of the "war president" taking over this area?

Exerpt:

At Los Alamos, the University of California has already been replaced by a "limited liability corporation," says Tyler Przybylek of the Department of Energy's Evaluation Board; and, more generally, the writing is on the containment wall. Nuclear laboratories are no longer to be intellectual institutions devoted to science but part of a corporate-business model where research, design, and ultimately the weapons themselves will become products to be marketed. The new dress code will be suits and ties, not lab coats and safety glasses. Under Bechtel, new management will lead to a "tightly structured organization" that will "drive efficiency," predicts John Browne, who directed the lab at Los Alamos from 1997-2003. "If there is a product the government wants," he concludes, "they will necessarily be focused on that. A lot more money will be at stake."