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Dept of Energy budget requests for 2008
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Department of Energy Requests $24.3 Billion for FY 2008 Budget

Office of Science ($4.4 billion)

DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest federal supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the nation and its $4.4 billion request will help ensure U.S. leadership across a broad range of scientific disciplines. DOE’s Office of Science budget also incorporates $428 million in funding for basic research in nuclear fusion, including the international fusion energy experimental reactor agreement, known as ITER; $340 million for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research to sustain DOE’s position as world leader in civilian computing power; $158 million for operations of the Tevatron at Fermilab for collider and neutrino physics programs; and $146.5 million for operations of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to provide an idea of conditions of the very early universe. DOE’s FY 2008 request includes $75 million for three innovative Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and make biofuel production cost-effective on a national scale to meet the President’s goals.

Detailed budget, pdf

Personally, I can't believe this stuff is available online. Ha! I mean, usually it's hard to find detailed info on anything online. Well anyway, the budget for the DOE Office of Science breaks down something like the following:

$160 million to ITER.
$314 million to Z-Machine, Omega Laser, and National Ignition Facility

... which doesn't seem to add up to $428 million. But considering all the buh-jillion things they are putting money into, and that some probably overlap, maybe that's just the way it works out.

It also wouldn't surprise me if some of these beauocrats have a god-complex. I'd love to be a part of it, but I'm Canadian, so I'm screwed. There is no equivalent for many of these things north of the border.

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