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NNSA Kicks Can on Facility Crucial to Disposing of Old Warhead Cores

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

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NNSA Kicks Can on Facility Crucial to Disposing of Old Warhead Cores

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The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) drive to make new nuclear-weapon cores has delayed disposal of old ones, according to an agency statement emailed to the Exchange Monitor on Tuesday. Amid the expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Facility and early work on South Carolina’s planned Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, which combined are supposed to be able to make at least 80 plutonium pits by the 2030s, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency decided it cannot…

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