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They always find the money for new nuclear weapons

U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Nuclear Reactor Program Fully Funded By: Sam LaGrone USNI News  January 9, 2015 WASHINGTON NAVY YARD — Development work for the reactor that will power the Navy’s next generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was fully funded in the so-called Fiscal Year 2015 “cromnibus” that was signed into law last month, the head of the service’s Naval Reactors told USNI News on Friday.

In addition to the $156 million Ohio-class Replacement Program (ORP) reactor development included the Department of Energy’s FY 2015 budget, Congress also included $126.4 to refuel the service’s S8G prototype reactor in West Milton, N.Y. and $70 million to dispose of reactor waste as part of an existing facility in Idaho………..http://news.usni.org/2015/01/09/u-s-navys-next-generation-nuclear-reactor-program-fully-funded

January 12, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war