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NNSA Rachets Down Tritium Production

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Friday, May 15th, 2009

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In another sign of the shrinking U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, the Energy Department has curtailed operations at its Savannah River Site that produces radioactive tritium gas for warheads to increase their explosive yield. Officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous DoE agency that operates the department's nuclear weapons complex, confirmed last week that the Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF) at the South Carolina site has been placed in a "responsive operations mode" in which tritium is produced "on…

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