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More Money Won’t Buy More Pits, NNSA Administrator, Nuclear Weapons Council Chair Tells Senators

More Money Won’t Buy More Pits, NNSA Administrator, Nuclear Weapons Council Chair Tells Senators
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

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) won’t be able to make 80 pits annually by 2030 even if Congress throws more money at the problem this year, the agency’s top official and the Pentagon’s acquisition chief both told Senators Wednesday in a hearing “The nuclear weapons council stands by the assessment that was provided, that I signed on April 22 of the adequacy of the [NNSA] budget, as well as that no additional money will get the pits to 80…

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