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ment plans.
• In Tennessee, the price tag for a new uranium processing facility has grown nearly sevenfold in eight years to upward of $6 billion because of problems that include a redesign to raise the roof. And the estimated cost of an ongoing effort to refurbish 400 of the country's B61 bombs has grown from $1.5 billion to $10 billion.
• Virtually every major project under the National Nuclear Security Administration's oversight is behind schedule and over budget -- the result, watchdogs and government auditors say, of years of lax accountability and nearly automatic annual budget increases for the agency responsible for maintaining the nation's nuclear stockpile.
• The NNSA has racked up $16 billion in cost overruns on 10 major projects that are a combined 38 years behind schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reports. Other projects have been cancelled or suspended, despite hundreds of millions of dollars already spent, because they grew too bloated.
• Advocates say spending increases are necessary to keep the nation's nuclear arsenal operating and safe, and to continue cutting-edge research at the nation's nuclear labs. But critics say the nuclear program -- run largely by private contractors and overseen by the NNSA, an arm of the U.S. Energy Department -- has turned into a massive jobs program with duplicative functions.
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• FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady knows it will take a while to get in sync with his rookie receivers. Meanwhile, he keeps winning.
• The 14-year veteran threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to one of those newcomers, hitting a wide-open Aaron Dobson on the game's first series before both offenses played as sloppily as the second-half weather, and the New England Patriots got by the New York Jets 13-10 on Thursday night.
• Thirteen of Brady's 19 completions went to veteran Julian Edelman, who knew the offense better than the three rookie wide receivers.
• "It's unrealistic for them to feel like they can do it like 10-year veterans. That's not what they are," Brady said, "but they're trying hard and they work real hard and they have a lot of skill."
• That applies to another rookie, Jets quarterback Geno Smith. But he completed just 15 of 35 passes for 214 yards with three fourth-quarter interceptions and was sacked four times.
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