
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has requested a roughly 60% increase in fiscal year 2023 for the part of its budget that funds the rebuilding of critical nuclear-weapons production infrastructure including plutonium pits, a Department of Energy document published Tuesday shows. The semiautonomous DoE nuclear-weapons agency seeks some $4.6 billion for Production Modernization in fiscal year 2023, an increase of more than $1.7 billion compared with the 2022 appropriation under an omnibus spending bill signed into law on March…