
The National Nuclear Security Administration would receive not quite $15 billion if a Department of Energy budget bill approved Tuesday by a Senate Appropriations subcommittee becomes law.The bulk of the money — $10.9 billion — would fund nuclear-weapon operations at the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency, with the rest split almost evenly between nuclear nonproliferation and naval nuclear reactor work.Like a companion bill that cleared the House Appropriations Committee last week, the Senate energy and water subcommittee legislation would provide…