Bill > HR4107

This bill, titled the Reduce Expenditures in Nuclear Infrastructure Now Act (REININ Act), aims to significantly reduce the United States' nuclear arsenal and associated spending by prohibiting the development of new long-range penetrating bomber aircraft and new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and by limiting the number of nuclear-armed submarines to eight by fiscal year 2020, with a further restriction on procuring more than eight new submarines (SSBNX) in the future. It also caps the number of submarine-launched ballistic missiles at 250 and ICBMs on high alert at 150, and prevents the F35 Joint Strike Fighter from being capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Furthermore, the bill seeks to control costs by reducing the budget for the B61 life extension program to no more than $5 billion and terminating several other nuclear-related projects, including the W78 life extension program, the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building replacement, and the Uranium Processing Facility. The bill also mandates reports from the Secretaries of Defense and Energy detailing their plans to implement these reductions, and requires an annual accounting of federal spending on nuclear weapons and programs.