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National Nuclear Security Administration Budget
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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 2008-2010 |
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Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration Budget
Nuclear
Weapons, Environmental Management, and Nuclear Waste
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| FY 2008 | FY 2009 | FY 2010 |
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| Appropriation | Appropriation | Request |
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| | Weapons Activities |
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| Life Extension Program | 246.835 | 205,043 | 209,196 |
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| Defense Programs |
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| Directed Stockpile Work | 1,405,602 | 1,590,152 | 1,514,651 |
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| W76 Life Extension Program | 189,822 | 202,920 | 209,196 |
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| Reliable Replacement Warhead | 1,527 | 0 | 0 |
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| B61 Stockpile Systems | 64,125 | 78,021 | 124,456 |
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| W62 Stockpile Systems | 2,122 | 1,596 | 0 |
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| Plutonium Capability | 0 | 155,269 | 0 |
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| Plutonium Sustainment | 0 | 0 | 149,201 |
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| Science Campaign | 286,274 | 316,690 | 316,690 |
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| Dynamic Plutonium Experiments | 0 | 23,022 | 0 |
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| Academic Alliances | 0 | 0 | 30,251 |
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| Test Readiness | 4,905 | 5,408 | 0 |
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| Engineering Campaign | 168,548 | 150,000 | 150,000 |
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| Enhanced Surety | 34,137 | 46,112 | 42,000 |
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| Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition and High Yield
Campaign | 470,206 | 436,915 | 436,915 |
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| Advanced Simulation and Computing Campaign | 574,537 | 556,125 | 556,125 |
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| Pit Manufacturing and Certification Campaign | 213,831 | 0
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| Readiness Campaign | 158,088 | 160,620 | 100,000 |
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| Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities | 1,635,381 | 1,674,406 | 1,736,348 |
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| LANL TA-55 Reinvestment Phase II | 1,097 | 8,245 | 5,200 |
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| LANL Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility Upgrade | 990 | 2,654 | 11,000 |
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| Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility | 38,538 | 90,622 | 54,478 |
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| LANL CMRR | 74,141 | 97,194 | 55,000 |
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| Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility-SRS |
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| Secure Transportation Asset | 211,523 | 214,439 | 234,915 |
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| Total, Defense Programs | 5,123,990 | 5,099,347 | 5,045,644 |
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| Nuclear Counterterrorism Incident Response | 158,655 | 215,278 | 221,936 |
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| Facilities and Infrastructure Recapitalization
Program | 177,861 | 147,449 | 154,922 |
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| Site Stewardship |
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| Environmental Projects and Operations | 17,272 | 38,596 |
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| Safeguards and Security |
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| Defense Nuclear Security | 765,133 | 735,208 | 749,044 |
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| Cyber Security | 105,287 | 121,286 | 122,511 |
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| Subtotal, Safeguards and Security | 870,420 | 856,494 | 871,555 |
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| Congressionally Directed Projects | 47,232 | 22,836 |
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| LANL Matter Radiation Interactions in Extremes | 0 | 952 | 0 |
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| Use of Prior Year Balances / Rescission of Prior
Year Balances | - | 93,064 |
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| | Total, Weapons Activities | 6,302,366 | 6,380,000 | 6,384,431 |
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| | Total, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation | 1,656,922 | 1,482,350 | 2,136,709 |
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| Fissile Materials Disposition | 66,235 | 41,774 | 701,900 |
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| MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site | 278,800 | 467,800 | 504,238 |
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| | Total, Naval Reactors | 774,686 | 828,054 | 1,003,133 |
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| | Total, Office of the Administrator | 402,137 | 439,190 | 420,754 |
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| | Total, NNSA | 9,136,111 | 9,129,594 | 9,945,027 |
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| FY 2008 | FY 2009 | FY2010 |
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| Defense environmental cleanup | 5,411,231 | 5,657,250 | 5,495,831 |
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| EM Recovery |
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| Total, Other defense activities | 749,459 | 1,314,063 | 852,468 |
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| Defense nuclear waste disposal | 199,171 | 143,000 | 98,400 |
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| Uranium enrichment D&D fund | 622,162 | 535,503 | 559,377 |
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| Uranium enrichment D&D fund Recovery |
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| Non-Defense environmental cleanup | 182,263 | 261,819 | 237,517 |
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| Non-Defense environmental cleanup Recovery |
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