Someone please look at this Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Summary. Do a search for "significant cuts" and then tell us how much of this is _LLNL_ and how much of it is _LANL._ Is this better or worse than what was expected. The reason I ask is becasue cuts are directly proportional to "people to be gone" by April of 2008.
$5.9 billion, $632 million below the President’s request and $396 million below 2007 with cuts to 37specific weapons program accounts.
• New Facilities and the Reliable Replacement Warhead:
Prohibits the development of a reliable replacement warhead until the President has a post cold war strategic nuclear weapons plan necessary to guide transformation and downsizing of the stockpile and nuclear weapons complex away from its expensive Cold War configuration to a more affordable, sustainable structure.
• Construction Mis-Management: DOE construction management has remained on the GAO High-Risk List for seventeen years, improvements must be made before new efforts proceed.
The referenced post, Curiouser and Curiouser, is about the current funding bill for the labs and about NNSA's plans for the future of the weapons complex.
The story is developing quickly. I have added about 7 more links in the last couple of hours.
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Someone please look at this Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Summary. Do a search for "significant cuts" and then tell us how much of this is _LLNL_ and how much of it is _LANL._ Is this better or worse than what was expected. The reason I ask is becasue cuts are directly proportional to "people to be gone" by April of 2008.
And this means excatly what?
Weapons Programs:
$5.9 billion, $632 million below the President’s request and $396 million below 2007 with cuts to 37specific weapons program accounts.
• New Facilities and the Reliable Replacement Warhead:
Prohibits the development of a reliable replacement warhead until the President has a post cold war strategic nuclear weapons plan necessary to guide transformation and downsizing of the stockpile and nuclear weapons complex away from its expensive Cold War configuration to a more affordable, sustainable structure.
• Construction Mis-Management: DOE construction management has remained on the GAO High-Risk List for seventeen years, improvements must be made before new efforts proceed.
The referenced post, Curiouser and Curiouser, is about the current funding bill for the labs and about NNSA's plans for the future of the weapons complex.
The story is developing quickly. I have added about 7 more links in the last couple of hours.
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