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NNSA Expanding Tritium Production At TVA Reactors

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Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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The Obama administration said this week it planned to increase tritium supplies for the U.S. nuclear stockpile by producing the radioactive gas at the Tennessee Valley Authority's two-unit Sequoyah nuclear plant as well as at TVA's Watts Bar plant. The plans were revealed in the fine print of the fiscal year 2011 budget proposal of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department that operates the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Tritium, which boosts the explosive…

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