For the Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) the bill provides $323 million compared to $317.5 million provided in FY2015 for the US domestic fusion program and $115 million compared to $150 million provided in FY2015 for the US (9 percent) contribution to ITER construction. Within the domestic $323 million, the bill allocates $2.75 million for high energy density physics studies on the NDCX-II experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, $71 million for the National Spherical Torus experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, $80 million for the DIII-D experiment at General Atomics and "not less than" $18 million for the Alcator C-Mod experiment at MIT. With respect to the ITER allocation, the bill requires progress reports in February and August 2016 on the status of implementation the ITER Director-General's Action Plan. Total domestic fusion and ITER funding provided is therefore $438 million compared to $467 million in FY2015 due to reduction in the ITER allocation.

For the Department of Energy NNSA Inertial Confinement and High Yield program (a part of its nuclear weapons activities), the bill provides $511.050 million compared to $512.895 provided in FY2015. Within this, $329 million is allocated to the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, $68 million is allocated to the OMEGA program at the University of Rochester, $7 million is allocated to the program at the Naval Research Laboratory, and $4.963 is designated for "pulsed power inertial confinement fusion" at Sandia National Laboratory. Additional supporting efforts at Sandia are funded in other NNSA budget categories.