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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (18216)	2/7/2002 1:15:31 AM
From: Webster Groves	Respond to of 281500

<<The DOE budget request for FY2003 is $21.9 Billion. And much of that goes to fund the national laboratories, store nuclear waste, and nuclear research.>> Most of the DOE budget is for its main mission: nuclear weapons research and production. Some apparently civilian energy research programs, such as laser fusion, are actually nuclear weapons simulations work. It is no longer necessary to blow up a bomb to know how well it will work. The big national labs such as Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia, work primarily on weapons programs, with a some civilian research tossed in to keep the scientists and engineers happy. Relatively little money is spent on storing nuclear waste. This is done at the reactor sites, although every state but Nevada would like to send their waste to Yucca Mtn. The amount spent on "classical" nuclear/elementary particle research is a relatively small percentage of the budget. DOD would like to control the weapons programs of DOE, but fortunately Congress hasn't signed off on this - I hope they don't. -wg