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White House Requests 20 Percent Increase for NNSA Weapons Programs in FY ’19

White House Requests 20 Percent Increase for NNSA Weapons Programs in FY ’19
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The Trump administration on Monday proposed what would amount to a $2-billion-a-year raise for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) -- a roughly $15-billion fiscal 2019 budget request that would accelerate existing nuclear-warhead refurbishment programs and consider making warhead cores somewhere other than New Mexico.The Department of Energy's fiscal 2019 budget request also continues the administration’s plan — which so far Congress has blocked — to cancel the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility under construction at the Savannah River Site…

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