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Confirming what appeared intuitively obvious, the Department of Energy said Tuesday that Los Alamos National Laboratory will have to manufacture 80 nuclear weapon cores year by itself in 2030, if a planned facility at the Savannah River Site is not ready by then. Planned upgrades for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 plutonium facility “would provide the ability to produce a minimum of 30 pits per year, with surge efforts to produce 80 pits per year if needed,” the DoE's semiautonomous…
