A significant increase in the National Nuclear Security Administration's weapons program budget appears to have cleared up a funding logjam that could have forced the agency to stagger construction of two multi-billion-dollar facilities. Thanks to a $624 million increase in President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 request for the agency's weapons activities and a planned $5 billion influx of funds over the next five years, the Uranium Processing Facility planned for the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility slated to be built at Los Alamos National Laboratory are moving forward and could be completed over the next 12 years with steady funding, according to budget documents submitted to Congress Feb. 1.
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