By George Lobsenz The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved legislation barring the Energy Department from using money earmarked for nuclear nonproliferation programs to support the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), the Bush administration's effort to rejuvenate spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and recycling. The prohibition, included by the committee last week in its defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2009, follows questions about whether the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the department's semi-autonomous weapons agency, was wrongly diverting nonproliferation money…
Senate Defense Panel Bars Use of Nonproliferation Funds For GNEP
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