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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

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$500 million error in FutureGen analysis

$500 million error in FutureGen analysis

A financial error was found in a FutureGen analysis and price estimates of the power plant are now as high as $2.3 billion. FutureGen officials, such as Mike Mudd, left, were still confident that FutureGen would be coming as of Feb. 5 of last year. (File

$500 million error in FutureGen analysis

The U.S. Department of Energy made a $500 million math error when it decided to pull support from the proposed FutureGen experimental power plant in Mattoon, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Monday.

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