Sandia Wins, LANL Loses In Fed Nuke Proposal

Albuquerque Journal - The Obama administration wants to spend $3 billion on nuclear weapons work in New Mexico next year, but notably absent from its annual funding request to Congress is money for a plutonium lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
After spending more than $600 million over nearly a decade without starting construction, the National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday asked Congress to indefinitely postpone work on the proposed new plutonium-handling building at LANL. However, funding for nuclear weapons work at Sandia National Laboratories would jump 30 percent next year under the budget proposal, primarily for refurbishing aging nuclear weapons. Read More News New Mexico. Albuquerque Journal subscription required

Sandia Wins, LANL Loses In Fed Nuke Proposal