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Explanation of Funding Changes
Advanced Certification
The increase will support the quantification of the effects of surety
features, investigation of efficacy options, manufacturing of
hydrodynamic experiments, product-process based certification, the
certification of reuse options, and support the National Boost Initiative.
The increase will also support a JASON study of the scaled experimental
program developed for improving predictive capability of performance
calculations for nuclear weapon primaries
Primary Assessment Technologies
The increase will fund additional efforts in support of the National Boost
Initiative and scaling (and surrogacy) studies. There is an offsetting
decrease resulting from the transfer of materials studies on Sandia Z
machine to Dynamic Materials Properties.
Dynamic Materials Properties
The increase will fund materials studies in support of the National Boost
Initiative and accelerates dynamic Pu experiments that support
scaling/surrogacy efforts in Advanced Certification. There is also an
increase resulting from the transfer of materials studies on Sandia’s Z
machine to Dynamic Materials Properties from Primary Assessment
Technologies. The increase will further support materials work in
extreme environments executed in cooperation with the DOE Office of
Science, DOE Energy, and DOE Environmental offices.
Advanced Radiography
The increase will support work in two areas: (i) radiographic performance
improvements at U1a at NNSS; and, (ii) the development and maturation
of key detector and source technologies at multiple sites.
FY 2012 vs.
FY 2011
Request
($000)
+17,957
Weapons Activities/
Science Campaign Page 91
FY 2012 Congressional Budget
+332
+14,852
+3,464
Secondary Assessment Technology
The increase will primarily fund the development of weapons physics
experiments to be performed at Trident at LANL and NIF.
+4,112
Total Funding Change, Science Campaign +40,717