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FY08 ANA Budget Analysis
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The topic of what to do with spent nuclear fuel is ripe for debate. Commercial utilities, the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission all have important legal and moral obligations to responsibly manage the waste that's been produced in the past six decades.
Several proposals for dealing with spent nuclear fuel have been pursued since the dawn of the nuclear age. ANA's perspectives on some of the more relevant proposals can be found below.
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FY 2006-2008 |
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Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons,
Environmental Management & Nuclear Waste Budget |
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| | Budget Category |
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| FY06 Request | FY06 Approp. | FY07 Request | FY07 Approp. | FY 08 Request |
| | All numbers in thousands of US dollars |
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| | NNSA Weapons Activities |
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| | Directed Stockpile Work |
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| 1,386,189 | 1,372,327 | 1,410,268 | 1,425,722 | 1,447,236 |
| | Campaigns |
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| 2,144,755 | 2,123,161 | 1,937,390 | 1,979,028 | 1,866,220 |
| | Readiness in Tech Base and Facilities |
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| 1,647,885 | 1,654,840 | 1,685,772 | 1,613,241 | 1,662,144 |
| | Secure Transportation Asset |
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| 212,100 | 209,979 | 209,264 | 209,537 | 215,646 |
| | Nuclear Weapons Incident Response |
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| 118,796 | 117,608 | 135,354 | 133,514 | 161,748 |
| | Facilities and Infrastructure |
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| 150,873 | 149,365 | 291,218 | 169,383 | 293,743 |
| | Environmental projects and operations |
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| 156,504 | 0 | 17,211 | 0 | 17,518 |
| | Weapons Safeguards and Security |
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| 805,486 | 797,751 | 754,412 | 761,158 | 881,057 |
| | Adjustments |
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| -32,000 | -69,734 | 38,292 | -16,000 | -34,000 |
| | Total, Weapons Activities |
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| 6,433,936 | 6,355,297 | 6,407,889 | 6,275,583 | 6,511,312 |
| | Defense nuclear nonproliferation |
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| 1,637,239 | 1,619,179 | 1,726,213 | 1,683,339 | 1,672,646 |
| | Naval Reactors |
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| 786,000 | 781,605 | 795,133 | 781,800 | 808,219 |
| | Office of the Administrator |
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| 343,869 | 354,223 | 386,576 | 340,291 | 394,656 |
| | Total NNSA |
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| 9,397,241 | 9,110,304 | 9,315,811 | 9,081,013 | 9,386,833 |
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| | Other Defense Activities |
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| 635,998 | 635,578 | 717,788 | 636,271 | 763,974 |
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| | Environmental Management |
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| | Total Defense Environmental Cleanup |
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| 6,015,044 | 6,129,729 | 5,390,312 | 5,731,839 | 5,363,905 |
| | Total Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup |
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| 349,934 | 349,687 | 310,358 | 349,687 | 180,937 |
| | Uranium Enrichment Decontam. & Decomm. Fund |
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| 591,498 | 556,606 | 579,368 | 556,606 | 573,509 |
| | Uranium Enrichment D&D Fund Discretionary Payment |
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| -451,000 | -446,490 | -452,000 | -452,000 | -463,000 |
| | Defense environ. management privatization (rescission) |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| | Total, Environmental Management |
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| 6,505,476 | 6,589,532 | 5,828,038 | 6,186,132 | 5,655,351 |
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| | Total Atomic Energy Defense Activities (053) DOE/NNSA |
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| 16,399,730 | 16,222,853 | 15,811,991 | 15,795,623 | 15,806,758 |
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| | Program Highlights |
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| | Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) - NNSA |
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| 4,000 | 0 | 0 |
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| | Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) - DOD |
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| 4,500 | 0 | 0 |
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| | Reliable Replacement Warhead - DOE |
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| 9,351 | 24,750 | 27,707 | 35,846 | 88,769 |
| | RRW - DOD (Navy) |
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| 248,760 | 238,663 | 237,598 | 242,392 | 281,230 |
| | Modern Pit Facility |
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| 7,686 | 1,012 | 0 |
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| 24,914 |
| | Pit Manufacturing (under Mfg. & Cert. total above) |
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| 122,105 | 122,105 | 147,658 | 152,709 | 155,838 |
| | Test Readiness |
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| 25,000 | 19,800 | 14,757 | 14,644 | 0 |
| | Retired Warhead Stockpile Systems (dismantlement) |
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| 35,245 | 59,400 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 52,250 |
| | Life Extension Programs |
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| 348,318 | 317,731 | 312,662 | 264,359 | 238,686 |
| | Stockpile Systems |
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| 311,804 | 300,718 | 325,545 | 336,194 | 346,717 |
| | Inertial Confinement fusion ignition and high yield program |
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| 460,418 | 543,582 | 451,191 | 489,706 | 412,259 |
| | National Ignition Facility Construction |
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| 141,913 | 140,494 | 111,419 | 111,419 | 10,139 |
| | U.S. Surplus Fissile Materials Disposition Construction (MOX) |
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| 362,565 | 241,560 | 368,210 | 310,789 | 393,849 |
| | Nuclear/Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal (Yucca Mountain) |
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| 651,447 | 495,000 | 544,500 | 445,706 | 494,500 |
| | Office of Legacy Management |
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| 45,076 | 33,187 | 33,139 | 33,187 | 35,104 |
| | Advanced Fuel Concepts Initiative/Reprocessing |
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| 70,000 | 78,408 | 243,000 | 167,484 | 395,000 |
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| | FY07 House Floor Report |
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| | Department of Energy FY 2008 Budget Request |
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| | FY 2007 Operating Plan by Appropriation |
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