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House Appropriations Passes $21B NNSA budget; Fleischman Thinks Uranium Plant Needs Double Funding

House Appropriations Passes $21B NNSA budget; Fleischman Thinks Uranium Plant Needs Double Funding

The House Appropriations on Tuesday approved a 2023 spending bill that included roughly the requested funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, one of which should get almost double the funding it will receive under the bill, a Republican Congressman said. The 2023 energy and water development appropriations act should be “[r]aising the amount from $326 [million] for fiscal ‘23 to $647 [million]” for the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) under construction at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Y-12…

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