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NNSA, TVA Forge New Interagency Agreement on Uranium for Tritium Production

NNSA, TVA Forge New Interagency Agreement on Uranium for Tritium Production
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Thursday announced a new interagency agreement to continue providing the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority with low-enriched uranium that makes it possible to produce tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons.Under the agreement, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency will downblend highly enriched uranium into low-enriched uranium that will be burned — along with tritium-producing burnable absorber rods — in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Watts Bar Nuclear Plant reactor Unit 1 in Rhea…

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