President Bush yesterday submitted a $9 billion budget request to Congress for the National Nuclear Security Administration to fund nuclear weapons stewardship, nonproliferation programs and work on naval reactors. The fiscal year 2005 budget request is part of the $24.3 billion Energy Department request, which is the largest in the department's history. Of the request, $6.6 billion is allocated for stockpile stewardship efforts and the modernization of the nuclear complex. This is an increase of almost $200 million over last...
