The $27.2 billion energy budget request itself is mostly about nuclear energy. It calls for $7.6 billion for a “safe, secure” stockpile of weapons, $2.5 billion for nonproliferation efforts and $5.7 billion for the continuing struggle to clean up the environmental effects of weapons manufacturing dating back to the Manhattan Project and the cold war. There was some restraint on the weapons end: a factory for processing plutonium components for nuclear warheads at Los Alamos in New Mexico, which was supposed to cost $4 billion to $6 billion over the next few years, was indefinitely deferred. ...The budget would provide $65 million for advancing small modular reactors, which can be built in factories and shipped around the world to where they are needed. That is slightly less than small modular reactors got last year. One of the biggest proposed increases was for the department’s office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which would get $2.34 billion, up from $1.81 billion, a 29.1 percent jump. Within that category, the development and deployment of biomass and biorefinery research, and advanced manufacturing, got the biggest increases. The administration is once again trying to cut the fuel cell budget; last year, Congress added to it. Building technologies and weatherization would also get big increases. Please continue reading at:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/obamas-wish-list-for-energy/
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/obamas-wish-list-for-energy/
