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Civilian Reactors to Shoulder Bigger Loads of Nuclear Weapons Program

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

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Civilian Reactors to Shoulder Bigger Loads of Nuclear Weapons Program

Civilian reactors in Tennessee notionally will sharply increase their output of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons by the fall of 2024 to help the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) produce its desired 2,800 grams of tritium annually during the government fiscal year that begins around that time, officials said Wednesday morning. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) planned license amendment, the authority’s two Watts Bar reactors will each be allowed to irradiate some 2,500 tritium…

Pentagon

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Congress

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Army

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Unmanned Systems

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