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LANL Weapons Chief Lobbies for Plutonium Pit Mission

LANL Weapons Chief Lobbies for Plutonium Pit Mission

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has the technical and safety chops both to manufacture plutonium pits and to lead new research on the nuclear-weapon cores, the head of the lab’s weapons program said Wednesday amid an intensifying turf war over the Department of Energy’s plutonium mission.“Something that I’ve heard a lot talking with folks is a concern about whether you can really do the scientific R&D that is necessary at Los Alamos and balance that with the pit production…

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