NNSA To Spend $80 Billion On Defense Nuke Programs Over Next 10 Years

摘要

The National Nuclear Security Administration projects it will spend slightly less than $80 billion on nuclear defense programs over the next 10 years, according to a summary of the agency's new stockpile stewardship and management plan.rnIn its fiscal year 2011 budget request, the Obama administration is asking Congress for more than $2 billion for "stockpile support activities," a 25 percent increase over the previous fiscal year; $ 1.6 billion for "science, technology and engineering" efforts, about $153 million more than the previous fiscal year; and a 4.8 percent increase in infrastructure spending - $2.3 billion - "for major long-term construction projects to replace aging and expensive-to-maintain buildings that house critical capabilities for plutonium and uranium," plus another $ 1.5 billion for "other weapons activities," according to the summary.