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Most new large U.S. Navy amphibious assault ships would be required to be nuclear powered under the National Defense Authorization Act for 2009 which the House of Representatives has passed by a vote of 384 to 23. It now goes to the Senate where many senators are uneasy about the scheme as is the Navy and the shipbuilding industry in the U.S.
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The Air Force failed to correctly track more than 1,000 “classified items” during an inventory ordered by Adm. Kirkland Donald as part of his investigation into the service’s handling of nuclear materials, a government official said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tapped Donald, director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, to investigate in response to the mistaken shipment of top-secret nuclear nosecone assemblies to Taiwan.
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