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NNSA Reveals Plan To Shrink Weapons Complex

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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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By Jeff Beattie The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) unveiled some details yesterday of a proposal to significantly downsize the nation's nuclear weapons complex, including closing two unspecified "major testing sites" and scaling back its weapons production workforce by at least 20 percent over the next five years. NNSA, the semi-autonomous Energy Department agency that runs the department's nuclear weapons complex, plans to fully reveal its downsizing plan in a draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS) that NNSA will…

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