
The roughly $20 billion budget the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration requested on Monday is “the right number” to reverse a decade of “neglect” in the U.S. nuclear-weapons enterprise, the Secretary of Energy told reporters Monday. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget would come at the expense of the naval shipbuilding budget and, to a lesser extent, DoE-funded cleanup of shuttered Cold War nuclear weapons production sites. “We feel very strongly about that word, neglect,” Secretary of…