Interactive charts from this week's issue of SFR, which details the priorities of the US Department of Energy budget. Hint: It's not solar R&D.
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These latest figures are the results of a US Senate subcommittee's markup of the 2012 DOE bill. To read the full bill, along with a comparison to House appropriations and DOE's requested budget, click here.
Below is SFR's chart of the spending on nuclear weapons activities vs. energy efficiency and renewable energy R&D:
And here's the breakdown of nuclear spending vs. all other spending:
