Senate panel cuts NASA nuclear program, citing expected slow start
The Senate Appropriations Committee has cut NASA's $125.5 million fiscal 2003 budget request for the Nuclear Systems Initiative (NSI) by $13 million, or 10.4 percent, because it "believes that the necessary technology will be slow to ramp up," according to a report released July 26 to explain the...
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