Reply To: Proliferation?

[jamesr]

I also note from the report: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112srpt75/pdf/CRPT-112srpt75.pdf

Some other interesting points…
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Plutonium-238 Production Restart Project.—The Committee pro- vides no funding for the Plutonium-238 Production Restart project.

ie. No new space missions will be able to have radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) as used on missions like Voyager and Cassini

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The Committee recommends no funding for the nuclear waste disposal program.

The Committee reiterates its support for the $8,000,000,000 in loan guarantee authority authorized in Public Law 110–161 for Advanced Fossil Energy Projects.

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The Committee recommends $1,804,882,000 for directed stockpile work.

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Science Campaign.—The Committee recommends $347,055,000. Within these funds, at least $44,000,000 shall be used for plutonium and other physics experiments at Sandia’s Z facility. The Committee commends Sandia National Laboratory for successfully and safely performing two plutonium experiments at the refurbished Z facility. The Committee understands that these experiments yielded fundamentally new and surprising data about the behavior of plutonium at high pressure and this new data has been one of the most valuable contributions to the stockpile stewardship program. The Committee continues to strongly support the weapons physics activities at Sandia’s Z facility that are critical to sustaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear stockpile.