The head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) moved to protectweapons life-extension programs and plutonium infrastructure from the budget ax wielded hereTuesday by the House’s top nuclear-security appropriator.Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), chair of the House Appropriations energy and water developmentsubcommittee, told NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty that the agency requested toomuch money in fiscal 2020 for its nuclear weapons operations. The request came at theexpense of nonproliferation programs aimed at preventing the spread of fissile materials othernations or terrorists could use to build nuclear or radiological weapons.
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机译:美国国家核安全局(NNSA)负责人采取行动,以保护 r n武器寿命计划和p基础设施免受众议院最高核安全拨款者周二在这里使用的预算斧头的影响。 r nRep。众议院拨款和水开发小组委员会主席马西·卡普特(Marcy Kaptur)告诉国家核安全局局长丽莎·戈登-哈格提(Lisa Gordon-Hagerty),该机构在2020财年为核武器业务要求的资金过多。这项要求来自旨在防止其他扩散或恐怖分子可以用来制造核武器或放射性武器的裂变材料扩散的防扩散计划的开支。
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