The Energy Department needs a 10-year, $5 billion program to begin to improve the physical condition of the nation's nuclear weapons facilities, which have fallen into shoddy condition because the department has not spent enough money on facility maintenance over the past few years, a top DOE official told a Senate subcommittee this morning. Air Force Gen. John Gordon, the director of DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, said he is ready to implement a facilities and infrastructure recapitalization plan to...
