funds totaling nearly $5 billion that exists that are applicable to this cleanup problem of uranium enrichment d do want at least in passing to acknowledge which is very important that underpinning all of our priorities is stewardship of the department as a science and technology powerhouse for the country with an unparalleled network of 17 national laboratories. and i can assure you, and there have been recent reports, that we are working very hard. we have been for several years, to strengthen the strategic relationship between the department and our national laboratory network. i also just want to mention that we continue with the strong emphasis on cross-cutting r&d initiatives. these have been extremely successful in our view and our major focus -- the biggest increases in this budget in the crosscut is for grid modernization and for the energy/water nexus and, of course, we also continue a very important crosscut in terms of advanced computation particularly the movement to exit scale computing in the next decade to do everything from nuclear weapons to energy technologies to cancer soluti

funds totaling nearly $5 billion that exists that are applicable to this cleanup problem of uranium enrichment d& d and finally i do want at least in passing to acknowledge which is very important that underpinning all of our priorities is stewardship of the department as a science and technology powerhouse for the country with an unparalleled network of 17 national laboratories. and i can assure you, and there have been recent reports, that we are working very hard. we have been for several years, to strengthen the strategic relationship between the department and our national laboratory network. i also just want to mention that we continue with the strong emphasis on cross-cutting r&d initiatives. these have been extremely successful in our view and our major focus -- the biggest increases in this budget in the crosscut is for grid modernization and for the energy/water nexus and, of course, we also continue a very important crosscut in terms of advanced computation particularly the movement to exit scale computing in the next decade to do everything from nuclear weapons to energy technologies

3 different r&d activities which i'd be happy to discuss, of course, and $674 million for uranium enrichment d& d, the latter from the usec fund. the $1.6 billion -- i do want to emphasize that $1.6 billion usec fund is an existing not new mandatory spending account and our proposal is in keeping of the spirit of the still current authorization that revenues from the beneficiaries of past uranium enrichment services, rather than taxpayers at large, be used to pay the cost of d & d of the now shuttered facilities. and indeed, in 2000 congress the usec fund to support portsmouth and paducah d & d. and the usec fund is actually only one of three funds totaling nearly $5 billion that exists that are applicable to this cleanup problem of uranium enrichment d & d. finally, i do want at least in passing to acknowledge which is very important that underpinning all of our priorities is stewardship of the department as a science and technology powerhouse for the country with an unparalleled network of 17 national laboratories. and i can assure you, and there have been recent reports, that we are working

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mechanisms, to review not just their nuclear facilities but also their enrichment d as it relates to their nuclear stockpile and things like uranium mines and milles. changes to their plutonium reactor, to render it harmless. there are a number of steps we have already taken that essentially have stretched their breakout period to a year. we have ongoing, continuous monitoring of the iranian nuclear program to verify compliance with the agreement. you're right; there is a chance they may violate, but if they do, we will know. we'll have a number of options at our disposal, including potentially snapping back in place sanctions of the united nations security council put in place against iran that brought them to the negotiating table the first time around. that's the structure we have put in place here. obviously we take these reports quite seriously. i won't take any options off the table in terms of a potential response. the other element that is important here is that the united states will continue to deepen our coordination with our other allies and partners in the region to try to counter iran's ballistic missile program. the