NNSA Money

The Senate Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee today marked up its portion of the fiscal year 2013 spending bill, including $11.5 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

That figure "is $511 million above fiscal year 2012, for national security activities," according to a just-released subcommittee statement, which adds: "The bill provides funding to accelerate efforts to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials by December 2013 and to modernize the nuclear weapons stockpile." This funding includes:

* $7.577 billion, which is $363 million above fiscal year 2012, for Weapons Activities to extend the life of three nuclear weapons systems, upgrade aging infrastructure, and invest in science, technology, and engineering activities,

* $2.459 billion, which is $163 million above fiscal year 2012, for Nuclear Nonproliferation to meet the four year goal to secure vulnerable nuclear materials and accelerate the conversion of reactors that still use weapons-grade uranium,

* $1.089 billion, which is $9 million above fiscal year 2012, for Naval Reactors to continue research and development of a new reactor for the Ohio-class submarine, and

* up to $150 million across the agency's accounts to fund a research, development, and demonstration project for domestic enrichment technologies.