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House Spending Bill Would Blank W93 Warhead, Continue Plutonium Pit Investment

Monday, July 13th, 2020

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House Spending Bill Would Blank W93 Warhead, Continue Plutonium Pit Investment

The partially completed Mox Fuel Fabrication Facility: a plutonium disposal plant that the Department of Energy wants to convert into a factory for nuclear weapon cores. Source: McDermott International

A 2021 spending bill passed on Monday on a party line vote by the House Appropriations Committee would prohibit development of a proposed new nuclear warhead for the Navy while upping investments in infrastructure to produce new plutonium triggers — but not by as much as the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) wants. That is according to a detailed bill report for the 2021 energy and water development legislation passed last week by the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee. …

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