Chu Confirmation Update: Answering for Past Statements
Posted: January 13th, 2009 | Author: ErikLeaver | Filed under: In the News | Tags: chu, energy secretary, nuclear weapons | No Comments »Mandate author, Bob Alvarez was quoted in a Washington Post blog on Chu’s confirmation today:
In the course of the hearing, the main mission of the Energy Department – making, maintaining and dismantling nuclear weapons, and cleaning up from six decades of nuclear weapon production – got intermittent mention.
Robert Alvarez, who served as a policy advisor to the energy secretary in the Clinton administration, said that the Energy Department is spending about 11 times more money on nuclear weapons than on energy conservation.
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