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The House Appropriations Committee last Friday approved a 2022 civilian nuclear weapons budget that for now holds the line on modernizing the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons production complex, including proposed plutonium pit factories, but withholds funding for a couple smaller nuclear weapons programs. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget the House Appropriations Committee approved Friday includes the requested $1.8 billion for building plutonium pit production factories at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River…
