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The series revealed that he company holding a five-year, $2.2 billion Energy Department contract to manage the cleanup of Fernald, a former uranium-processing plant during the Cold War: bilked taxpayers of millions of dollars; violated or ignored government safety standards; developed a pilot vitrification plant that so far has cost taxpayers more than $70 million; wasted more than $16 million on a taxpayer-paid buyout of its own private employees to cut costs, and then turned around and re-filled the positions; threw away millions of dollars worth of never-used equipment, parts and supplies; and developed a secret plan to change the U.S. EPA-approved vitrification project that would escalate costs more than $240 million. (Feb. 11 - 16, 20, 23, 29; March 3 - 5, 12, 14, 24 - 26; April 3, 6, May 2, 5, 6, 17, 19; June 1, 3, 7; July 26; Aug. 7, 9, 25; Sept. 14, 29; Oct. 1, 6, 15; Nov. 5, 21, 23; & Dec. 31)