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US Department of Energy’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2006 (2005)

AuteurR.Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies
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Datumfebruari 2005
Classificatie 3.01.0.00/39 (VS - ALGEMEEN)
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Uit de publicatie:

Conclusion

• Direct spending for actual energy activities is no more than 11 percent of DOE's 
Budget.

• Meager funds dedicated to reduce foreign oil dependence, in the near term 
(principally conservation), are being cut.

• DOE's fossil fuel subsidies add to the global warming problem.

• DOE's Nuclear Energy R&D subsidies (now more than $66 billion since 1948) is 
the largest for all fuel sources. Moreover, nuclear energy funds continue to support 
technologies that increase proliferation risks, and nuclear site cleanup problems.

• Nuclear weapons spending, which make up one third of DOE's budget has 
significantly increased -- primarily to maintain thousands of weapons no longer 
needed, designing new weapons for preemptive use, and reconstituting the nuclear 
weapons production and testing complex.

• DOE is seeking to terminate its environmental mission resulting from the nuclear 
arms race, which makes up about one third of DOE's budget. To free up funds for 
weapons, DOE is imposing deep cuts at rro-foundly contaminated sites - which 
threaten major regiona water supplies.

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