During last night's debate Rick Perry listed three Federal agencies he wants to eliminate - "Education, Commerce, and what's the other." Well after noodling on his well thought out plan for a while he suddenly remembered the third agency and told the audience it was the Department of Energy.
Great. Perry is of course well aware that all nuclear weapons are owned by DOE and are merely on loan to the Department of Defense. In fact, $12 Billion of the 2012 Department of Energy's $30 Billion Budget is for nuclear weapons.
The Department of Energy's budget also includes $1 Billion for nuclear power research and development and an additional $36 Billion in loan guarantee authority for building nuclear power plants.
We never new Perry was such an anti-nuclear dove and environmentalist.