Department of Energy FY95 Budget Request: Basic Energy Sciences

The Department of Energy has requested $741,296,000 for Basic Energy Sciences, to be distributed as follows:

According to the budget document provided to Congress, “The following summary highlights the Basic Energy Sciences program encompassed within the FY 1995 request:

"-The research program would be held to approximately the same level of effort as in FY 1994. Within the base program request, research will continue to emphasize new areas started in FY 1993, including materials synthesis and processing associated with advanced materials and processing activities, biotechnology activities, nonautomotive battery research, and advanced manufacturing activities.

"-The seven major user facilities would be operated at a level that would make them available to users at approximately the FY 1994 level. The Manual Lujan, Jr., Neutron Scattering Center (MLNSC) facility will be closed in FY 1994.

"-The Advanced Light Source (LBL) would operate at close to capacity and the 6-7 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source (ANL) would continue to be constructed with minimal effect on schedule.

"-The High Performance Computing Research Centers, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, will both operate prototype computational systems providing support to approximately eight grand challenge class computational energy projects and the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will begin work to transition a prototype massively parallel computing system into a production environment.

"-The overall budget for Accelerator and Reactor Improvements and Modifications, General Plant Projects, and Capital Equipment are proposed at slightly less than the FY 1994 level to address the high priority needs of the program.”