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The Department of Energy did not adequately study the environmental effects of producing nuclear-weapon cores in two states, a federal judge ruled Monday in a three year-old lawsuit. But the judge in the case declined to halt construction of the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., as requested by the plaintiffs, a broad coalition of environmental groups. Instead, Judge Mary Lewis gave the groups and the Department of Energy’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security…
