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April Showers May Bring Pit Factory Milestones at LANL, SRS

April Showers May Bring Pit Factory Milestones at LANL, SRS
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By April, both of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s next-generation plutonium-pit factories should reach the critical decision 1 milestone that solidifies the long-conceptualized designs of the facilities intended to manufacture new nuclear-weapon cores for most of this century. The semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency is planning the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Facility and the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.…

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