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FUNDING BY PROGRAM:
BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY
TABLES
FY 2010 Actual
Appropriation
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2011
Request
FY 2012
Request
NNSA
Naval Reactors 434,400 498,900 545,600
Total, NNSA 434,400 498,900 545,600
OUT-YEAR FUNDING:
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016
NNSA
Naval Reactors 609,600 653,530 777,010 842,050
Total, NNSA 609,600 653,530 777,010 842,050
Major Changes or Shifts: The FY 2012 request supports conceptual design, National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) efforts, and construction of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Infrastructure Recapitalization
program at the Naval Reactor Facility in Idaho. Manufacturing development and demonstration work,
as well as development of new core technologies, of the reactor plant to be used in the land-based
prototype refueling overhaul continue in FY 2012.
INTRODUCTION:
Site Description
The Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory is situated on nearly 202 acres of the former Bettis Airfield in
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, about 7.5 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This research and development laboratory is operated by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation for the
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (Naval Reactors), in a joint effort by the Department of the Navy
and the Department of Energy (DOE). The Naval Reactors Laboratory Field Office oversees Bettis
operations. Bettis is primarily involved with the design, development, and operational flow of nuclear
propulsion plants for naval vessels. The Program ensures the safe operation of reactor plants in nuclearpowered
submarines and aircraft carriers (constituting 40 percent of the Navy’s combatants), and fulfills
the Navy’s requirements for new nuclear propulsion plants that meet current and future national defense
requirements. Initial efforts of the Bettis Laboratory led to the development of the power plant for the
USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571), the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine.
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget