Senate Appropriations Committee Votes on DOE Funding, September 12, 2019

The Senate Appropriations Committee zeros out Yucca Mountain funding, cuts the Virtual Test Reactor (VTR) & keeps the plutonium sustainment slush fund for going – for “pits” for nuclear weapons.

We’ll see how all this washes out in the full Senate and in any House-Senate deliberations. The Energy & Water Subcommittee of Appropriations decides DOE funding.

Energy & Water report of Sept. 12, 2019, to go with the bill:

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