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NukeWatch reports UPF getting $94M in 2010| knoxnews.com
I received an e-mail this afternoon from Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, and he reported that the Energy and Water conference report contains $94 million for the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12. The activist group, which is closely tracking UPF and other spending in the nuclear weapons program, has a similar report on its Web site.
Here's what Coghlan wrote:
Frank:
Looks like Y-12 is being awarded far more than just environmental awards to hang on the wall.
Buried in the budget numbers of the House/Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Conference Report is $94 million for a construction project designated as "06-D-141 Project Engineering and Design (PED), Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN."
Struggling UN atom watchdog gets rare budget boost | Markets | Reuters
* IAEA to get first budget boost above inflation since 2003
* U.S. welcomes hike, citing spreading proliferation threats
* ElBaradei wanted much more to stop IAEA's "bastardisation"
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Member nations approved the first budget rise above inflation for the U.N. atomic watchdog in six years on Monday after heavy U.S. lobbying for more resources to shore up the fight against stealthy nuclear proliferation.
US House panel approves $26.9-billion budget for DOE
A US House of Representatives subcommittee on Thursday approved a $26.9-billion budget for the US Department of Energy in fiscal 2010. The budget largely supports an Obama administration proposal in May that included substantial increases for energy efficiency and renewable energy and a reversal in DOE's plans for a nuclear waste repository in Nevada. It includes $2.2 billion for DOE's energy-efficiency and renewable-energy programs, which was $69 million short of the administration's request, but $321 million more than the department is spending on such activities in fiscal 2009, according to House Appropriations Committee data.
In Obama's budget, money to fight Yucca also likely cut - Las Vegas Sun
President Barack Obama’s proposed slashing of the Yucca Mountain budget has had a perhaps unexpected fallout: It also likely cut the money the state of Nevada relies on to fight the project.
For the past several years the state Agency for Nuclear Projects has received $5 million from the U.S. Energy Department for its legal battle against the waste project. But Obama’s proposed fiscal 2010 budget provides the agency with just $3.2 million for the year.
DOE Budget Favors Renewables, Makes Cuts to Coal, Nuclear Programs :: POWER Magazine
President Obama’s $26.4 billion Department of Energy (DOE) budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2010 substantially increases new cash for the development of renewable energies, energy efficiency, and for measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions, but it cuts funding to coal and nuclear programs—fuels that produce 70% of the nation’s electricity.
The proposed FY 2010 budget, which would take effect on October 1 if approved by Congress, complements $38.7 billion the DOE will invest as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Energy Secretary Steven Chu last week detailed the budget request, highlighting major funding changes from FY 2009. He stressed that while the budget makes important investments in energy independence and job creation, it also cuts back on programs that don’t work as well or are no longer needed.
Favoring Renewables
Among the major increases were to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Its budget of $2.3 billion—an increase of 6% over FY 2009—builds on the Recovery Act funding of $16.8 billion. Solar energy got the biggest boost, gaining $320 million, an 83% increase from FY 2009. Wind received $75 million (a 36% increase from FY 2009), geothermal got $50 million (14% increase), while biomass and biorefinery systems research and development gained $235 million (8% increase).
PR-USA.net - Department of Energy's Budget Request Focuses Nuclear Support on Next-Gen Plants, Says NEI
The U.S. Department of Energy today released a fiscal year 2010 budget request that increases funding for developing next-generation nuclear power plants and used nuclear fuel recycling, but does little to support construction of reactors that are expected to be built over the next two decades, according to The Nuclear Energy Institute.
The FY10 budget proposal -- the first released by the Obama Administration -- also cuts funding for DOE's used nuclear fuel management program to $196.8 million, only $98.4 million of it from the federal Nuclear Waste Fund. The fund, established in 1983 to finance the federal government's program to manage used nuclear fuel, is paid for by users of nuclear-generated electricity through a monthly surcharge on their electric bills. The $196.8 million request is only one-fifth of the interest that accrues annually on the $22 billion fund.
The Nuclear Power 2010 program -- a cost-shared, industry-government partnership designed to reduce the technical and regulatory uncertainties associated with construction of advanced nuclear power plant designs -- would receive only $20 million in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The program receives $177 million in the current year, a sum matched by industry. The industry intends to invest $121 million in the program in FY10 and had expected DOE to match that commitment, which would complete the program.
NRC requests small increase for fiscal 2010 budget
NRC requested $1.071 billion for fiscal 2010, up about 2% from the $1.046 billion approved for FY-09. Both of the agency's program areas -- nuclear reactor safety, and nuclear materials and waste safety -- would receive modest funding increases under the proposed budget. The agency anticipates making about $5.3 million in cuts to some of its programs, including the Office of General Inspector's budget, which would receive about $758,000 less than the FY-09 funding. In the budget proposal released May 7 by President Barack Obama's administration, NRC asked for $56 million from the Nuclear Waste Fund for reviewing DOE's high-level waste repository application. NRC Chief Financial Officer Jim Dyer said the requested funding would not be an increase over the $49 million allocated in FY-09 because NRC has an additional $10 million in carryover funds from FY-08, bringing the total available funding through September to $59 million.
DOE - Secretary Chu: President's Energy Budget Creates Jobs, Restores America's Scientific Leadership and Puts Nation on the Path to Energy Independence
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today detailed President Barack Obama’s $26.4 billion Fiscal Year 2010 budget request for the Department of Energy, highlighting the Administration’s commitment to transformational discoveries, breakthrough science, and innovative technologies in the nation’s effort to secure reliable, clean, safe and secure energy, create new jobs and fight climate change. While the budget makes important investments in energy independence and job creation, it also cuts back on programs that don’t work as well or are no longer needed.
“The President’s budget for energy reflects his commitment to ending our dependence on foreign oil, restoring our scientific leadership and putting Americans back to work through investments in a new green energy economy,” Secretary Chu said. “It also demonstrates his commitment to using taxpayer dollars wisely – cutting spending on programs we don’t need so we can make strategic investments in our economic future.”
The President’s FY10 budget complements $38.7 billion the Department of Energy will invest as part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Specifically, the President’s FY10 budget:
DOE's proposed $26.4B budget for 2010 | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com
Meanwhile, DOE has moved a press release with some reported highlights of the DOE budget. Here are those:
The proposed budget, DOE said:
* Cuts funding for programs that aren't needed or aren't as effective as other investments - like more than $200 million in oil and gas company research that the companies can and do fund on their own.
* Substantially expands the use of clean, renewable energy sources while improving energy transmission infrastructure.
* Supports the Administration's goal to develop a smart, strong and secure electricity grid.
* Helps restore America's leadership in scientific research and innovation - including transformative science that can lead to a new generation of clean energy jobs.
* Makes significant investments in low-emissions plug-in and hybrid vehicles, nuclear energy, and clean coal technologies, as part of the Obama Administration's aggressive effort to reduce greenhouse gas production.
* Supports the ongoing security of our weapons stockpile, continued efforts at nuclear non-proliferation and ongoing environmental cleanup and legacy management as part of the Department's long-term stewardship responsibilities.
$2.18B proposed for DOE-Oak Ridge in 2010 | knoxnews.com
And that doesn't include the weapons work, according to the overall numbers released today by the Dept. of Energy.
The Oak Ridge budget numbers released this afternoon show Science going up (from $635 million in 08 and $797 million this year to $836 million in 2010. That doesn't include the stimulus money for Science in Oak Ridge, which is an additional $141 million.
The big drop occurred in Environmental Management, which showed a decline from $525 million this year to a proposed $431 in 2010. But, of course, the ARRA money for EM Oak Ridge is set at $825 million.
Nuclear nonproliferation funding is scheduled to go to $204 million, compared to current spending at $184 million.
Federal Budget’s New ‘black Book’ / Science News
Each year, the administration releases its federal-spending blueprint — usually in a series of phone book-sized tomes that must surely weigh eight to 10 pounds. And of course, the first thing most of us look for is what programs are slated for big gains — or excisions. Well, team Obama made looking for the big cuts a little easier this year. This morning it issued a 120-page volume: “Terminations, Reductions, and Savings: Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2010.”
Barack Obama entered office with the nation facing a record $1.3 trillion budget deficit for the current year. “Just as families across the country are tightening their belts and making hard choices so must Washington,” the new budget document says. The 121 programs that it recommends should die or diminish substantially could save taxpayers $17 billion.
First, there are the terminations: more than five dozen in all. Among them:
The Associated Press: Obama budget rescinds energy industry tax breaks
President Barack Obama outlined a budget plan Thursday that would end $26 billion in oil and gas industry tax breaks, point to a new direction for dealing with nuclear waste and shift government aggressively toward helping to develop renewable energy sources.
Obama called the tax break to the oil and gas industry "unjustifiable loopholes" in the tax system that in most cases other companies do not get.
The proposed budget, details of which were released Thursday, calls for abandoning the decades-old Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada and begin the search for another answer to disposing thousands of tons of used reactor fuel now kept at power plants in 31 states. It also would end government subsidies to the nuclear industry to help them certify and plan new nuclear power plants, cutting the program from $178 million to $20 million.
Reid: Yucca Budget Slashed, Project To Close
After receiving the smallest budget in its history through the work of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump will be shutdown. "It's over with -- Yucca Mountain is gone," said Reid.
The Obama Administration’s budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year, officially released today, follows through on the president’s commitment to end the failed Yucca Mountain proposal and instead pursue responsible alternatives for storage of the nation’s nuclear waste.
The project will have a budget of less than $197 million – a cut of more than $90 million from last year. Remaining funding for Yucca Mountain will be spent on the Blue Ribbon Commission examining alternate options and on phasing out work on the project in preparation for its final shutdown.
The Associated Press: Obama 2010 budget highlights by agency
Available details of President Barack Obama's proposed government spending for the 2010 budget year that begins on Oct. 1. A more extensive budget outline is expected in April. In most cases, the figures are for discretionary spending and do not include mandatory entitlement programs like Social Security. The percentage change is based on what Obama wants to spend next year compared with what he anticipates the government will spend in 2009 once Congress completes appropriations for this year.
Defense Environmental Cleanup Budget 2009
The Committee's recommendation for Defense Environmental Cleanup totals $5,425,202,000, an increase of $127,946,000 over the budget request of $5,297,256,000. Within the amounts provided, the Department is directed to fund hazardous waste worker training at $10,000,000. \n\nClosure Sites.--The Committee recommendation provides $45,883,000, the same as the budget request. The recommendation provides $13,209,000 for Closure Sites Administration, $30,574,000 for Miamisburg, Ohio, and $2,100,000 for Fernald, Ohio.
DOE plans conservative cleanup spending at Hanford - | Tri-City Herald
The Department of Energy plans to spend less money in coming months at its environmental cleanup sites including Hanford than was approved by Congress in a continuing budget resolution for spending through early March.
DOE's goal is to be conservative and not overspend in the first five months of the year as the funding amount for the rest of the year still unclear.
DOE will use the administration request for funding in fiscal 2009, which would cut annual spending on DOE cleanup nationwide from a little more than $5.7 billion in the fiscal year 2008 budget to $5.5 billion. The fiscal year started Oct. 1.
At Hanford, the budget for cleanup under the DOE Hanford Richland Operations Office would drop from the $886.5 million approved for fiscal 2008 to $851.8 million under the administration's request for fiscal 2009. That's a decrease of $34.7 million.
Senate panel cuts Bush Yucca budget request - Las Vegas Sun
A Senate spending panel has cut President Bush's 2009 budget request for Yucca Mountain by more than $100 million.
Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota says that instead of the $494.7 million Bush proposed, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water agreed Tuesday to $386.5 million.
US energy spending bill will kill funding for GNEP
A US House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee unanimously approved a Department of Energy funding bill Tuesday that would fully fund a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, while eliminating funding for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, the international spent fuel reprocessing program.
Week not a total wash for environmental action in the Senate | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Apparently the Senate actually accomplished something this week in the environmental realm: the 2009 federal budget resolution that passed 48-45 on Wednesday included $500 million for a Department of Energy environmental management program to clean up Hanford and other nuclear sites across the country.
aikenstandard: Senate panel boosts SRS budget total
The Senate Defense Authorization Bill that was passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee had better news than expected for the Savannah River Site.\nThe portion of SRS funded through that part of the federal government was pegged to get an allocation next year of $1.28 billion which is $74 million more than was in President Bush's request for the Site.
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